… just might remind you of a song or film title. Yesterday was our appearance at the Felixstowe Book Festival.
Overall the Festival was vibrant and very well supported with many very interesting authors and speakers. As far as our shared workshop with the Orwell Writers was concerned, we both had a few reservations about a likely attendance.
We needn't have worried! We had a lovely turn-out that included some former Scribblers including Morag who won the Short Story competition for the second consecutive year! Well done Morag.
The fun OWL presentation was based on characters - how ironic our new anthology has the same title! It was a very useful and helpful exercise that could easily pave the way for personal character libraries.
I should mention here the wonderful display of stories about queuing to pay respects to the Unnamed Soldier and the fantastic sketch created by Lara. Terrific!
Our own Flash Fiction session went very well - it seemed to need little explanation whilst very few attendees actually changed their story prompts. Everyone participated and produced lovely little stories in the allotted time. Because of the numbers we limited the writing to just fifteen minutes and then shared our work with everyone.
The downside really was the time element in both sessions. The number of people attending was far beyond our wildest dreams and took us a little aback. As a consequence some of the character feedback in the Orwell Writers' session had to be reduced, whilst our own session meant that Liliane, bless her, volunteered not to read thus allowing us to finish spot on time!
I would like to thank Liz for selling the dozen copies of our anthologies we had in the room, and for Jim collecting his big order from the boot of my car after the meeting! A great day all round!
Thank you all!
Now, please remember,
Keep Scribbling!!!
