Minutes of Scribblers meeting held on Tuesday 17 January 2017
Present: Dave, Liliane, Anne, Daniel, Jim, Mairead, Steve, Mel, Cathy
Apologies: Beryl, Dick, Di, Jane, Tony
Business:
We briefly discussed menu choices for the group’s meal out at the Orwell, to be held on Tuesday 28 February – thanks to Mairead for making contact with the hotel over this. Further details, menu options etc to be provided by email within a week or so. Anyone attending the meal will be expected to pay a deposit before the booking is made – probably £5.
FBF – Dave confirmed that Scribblers will be presenting a Flash Fiction event on Sunday 2 July in the Furneaux Suite, Orwell Hotel.
Dave mentioned that Ruth and Jeanette would be holding a pre festival event at the hotel at 3pm on 18 January; also mentioned that Ruth sent her regards to Scribblers.
Anthology – we discussed whether or not to invite work from ex-Scribblers, and how best to select work to be included, bearing in mind the quote we have for printing the anthology is based on only a certain number of pages. Dave suggested that we allocate one ‘homework’ (the one for meeting on 7 March) to preparing our pieces - either writing something fresh or tweaking something we’ve already done. The usual 1000 word count applies. If we end up with insufficient stories (unlikely!), or too many, we’ll have to decide at that point how to proceed.
Thanks as ever to Mairead for supplying foodie treats for us.
Flash Fiction: business over, we got down to the task in hand. The one word theme/topic drawn was ‘missing’, so we all settled down to write for 20/30 minutes, to see if we could produce appropriate stories.
Despite the muffled groans on hearing the topic, we all managed to produce complete tales – ranging from the search for a missing prosthetic hand to a commentary on a ladies’ football match in Scotland – and pretty much everything in between. What imaginations we all have!
Next meeting: This is in THREE WEEKS TIME, i.e. Tuesday 7 February. The theme for the 1000 word homework is ‘Anything but beige …’.
