Formed over forty years ago, our Writers Circle is based in Felixstowe, Suffolk. Meetings are held in The Room at the Top in Felixstowe Library, normally on the first and third Tuesday of each month commencing at 7.30pm and finishing by 10.00pm. Check this weblog for details of meetings.

There is an annual November to November fee of £30, April to November is £20 and June to November £15. For members preferring to pay at each meeting the charge is £5 per meeting. To contact Felixstowe Scribblers simply email scribblers.1@btinternet.com or the Secretary, catherine.stafford1@ntlworld.com

Friday, 9 September 2016

Meeting report.

Minutes of Scribblers meeting held on Tuesday 6 September 2016

 Present:  Dave, Mairead, Beryl, Liliane, Jim, Tony, Steve, Cathy
Apologies: Dick, Carolyn, Jane, Barry, Caz, Di, Gerry, Mel.

Business: 
We were all delighted to welcome Tony on one of his rare visits – such a busy man these days!
Thanks as ever to Mairead for cakes etc – she does spoil us.
Jeanette, our one time Scribbler, has had her book ‘Exclusion Zone’ mentioned in the Suffolk and Norfolk Magazine. Her previous two novels (ebooks) are now to be produced by the publisher of Exclusion Zone – our congratulations to her on this success.
All agreed that Richard will be much missed at meetings, but wished him all the best for the course he has undertaken at UCS.
Mel can’t be with us for a few weeks, as she has a great deal of work to do for her Phd – again, we all wish her well in this.

Readings of homework:

 The theme chosen by Gerry last time was ‘Autumn’. Not all of us had followed the topic, but there were some excellent stories to listen to.

Cathy: Sinner beware – a two person dialogue
Liliane: Autumn Days
Mairead: The garden in Autumn
Tony: The Autumn life of a the retired hero
Beryl: A question of balance
Dave: From beneath the shadow of the trees: A resumé from ‘Pauline’ now in for a re-write. It tells of Pauline’s new life with Billy, the policeman, who found her close to death, of the accident she cannot remember, of his struggle with an unfaithful partner before fate, affection and love brought them together. Autumn time bliss.
Steve: The challenge of Autumn
Jim: Bingo, Bingo, I’m in love

After the readings we had time to do a short exercise, in which we had ten minutes to jot down a short description of a character of our imagination, after which we shared our notes with the rest of the group. This proved interesting and fun – if we get time at other meetings we agreed that it would be good to do something similar.

Next meeting
This will be on 20 September, when the homework is to write up to 1000 words on a geographical theme. So choose a location, and see what you can come up with!
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