Minutes of Scribblers meeting held on 19 March 2019
Present: Dave, Tony, Kay, Liliane, David, Carole, Justin, Jim, Beryl, Gerry, Cathy
Apologies: Anne, Georgina, Derek
Business:
Nice to see another good turnout for a flash fiction evening.
Dave had been contacted by Caz, who hopes to join us again at some point. Also from ex-member Debbie, who has had a novel published – our congratulations to her.
Anthology – deadline for story entries is approaching – those, plus any photos and/or brief personal bios to be with Dave by end of March.
New bank signatory – Dave to contact HSBC to complain about the current unsatisfactory situation of seemingly unrecorded personal details etc.
Flash fiction:
Rani, as our guest, drew the topic ‘Riding Boots’, and we settled down to half an hour of writing. Despite the undisguised dismay from almost everyone when the topic was revealed, we did the best we could with it. As ever, by the end of the half hour, it was clear that we can all create a story from the least promising prompt!
This was Justin’s first experience of writing flash fiction. He admitted to finding it challenging, but he came up with an excellent story nonetheless.
Sharing our work produced much hilarity, thoughtful discussion, and exchange of views – a good evening.
Next meeting:
2 April, when the homework topic is ‘Under the lamp he saw …’. Up to 1000 words as usual.
