Minutes of Scribblers’ meeting Tuesday 19 September 2017
Present: Steve, Gerry, Liliane, Lara, Dave, Anne, John, Mairead, Bridget, Di, Cathy
Apologies: Beryl, Kay, Tony, Dick.
Business:
Our thanks as usual to Mairead for bringing in treats for us to enjoy.
Meeting:
Dave introduced our guest speaker, ex-Scribbler Caroline Foster, who gave us an interesting and insightful talk about her writing journey. She spoke about her experiences in gaining an agent and publisher, teaching creative writing, the challenges experienced writers of non-fiction can face when they decide to write fiction, and many other topics.
In her most recently published work, ‘Write from the start’, there is a vast amount of useful information for both non-fiction and fiction writers – several Scribblers purchased a signed copy from her on the night, and over coffee and cake we all enjoyed a lively discussion about almost every aspect of writing – the highs and lows, hopes and dreams – altogether a truly delightful evening. Our thanks must go to Caroline for her excellent presentation – I think we all came away inspired to work harder!
Next meeting: Tuesday 3 October, when the homework topic for our 1000 word piece is ‘disarm’. The originally selected topic was ‘how to train a norovirus’, but we were all overwhelmed by the potentially hopeless challenge this presented, so drew a second option!
