{"id":210,"date":"2017-03-27T20:23:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T20:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nethergatewriters.org\/?p=210"},"modified":"2021-03-12T10:41:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T10:41:56","slug":"wittering-from-the-webmaster-24th-march-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/?p=210","title":{"rendered":"Wittering from the Webmaster \u2013 24th March 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had our first Friday night meeting last week, and as David couldn’t make it, I’ll provide the feedback this time.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Our usual Chair, David Carson, wasn\u2019t able to make it along this evening, but 9 of us did, including two new folk who had seen Abby and Rosie\u2019s presentation at the Creative Dundee Petcha Kucha event and decided to come along and see what we are like.<\/p>\n

As we had new visitors, we started with some quick introductions, with each of us describing a little of our writing interests and what original brought us along to Nethergate Writers.<\/p>\n

We then moved on to discussing upcoming dates, and Rosie agreed to check that we could secure the room for our next meeting.<\/p>\n

Craig had brought along some questions for a proposed \u2018Meet the Nethergate Writers\u2019 section for the website. A couple of additional questions were suggested by other members, and Craig agreed to send them round the group.<\/p>\n

After the boring business was out the way, we also had some work to discuss. Roddie had brought along two poems \u2013 Justice<\/strong> is an older poem, which became sadly topical following the dreadful events in London last week, and lead to some interesting political discussion. Frustration<\/strong> looked at a situation we have all been unfortunately familiar with at one time or another \u2013 the inability to make the transfer of thoughts and ideas to the written page, and was very much enjoyed.<\/p>\n

Craig had brought along two possible entries for this month\u2019s Scottish Book Trust 50 Word Fiction competition, on the subject of campfires. They were both well received, but the second was seen as being more of a \u2018story\u2019, while the first seemed a more descriptive piece. Craig agreed that the second would be the best option for submitting.<\/p>\n

We finished our evening with a short writing exercise. Richard said that he had been thinking about memorable opening lines, so we each tried to come up with an interesting or arresting opening. Richard\u2019s own was seen as particularly amusing \u2018It was a wet Wednesday morning when my goldfish bowl caught fire\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n

We agreed to meet again next on Wednesday 5th<\/sup> April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We had our first Friday night meeting last week, and as David couldn’t make it, I’ll provide the feedback this time. Our usual Chair, David Carson, wasn\u2019t able to make it along this evening, but 9 of us did, including two new folk who had seen Abby and Rosie\u2019s presentation at the Creative Dundee Petcha… Read More »Wittering from the Webmaster \u2013 24th March 2017<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meeting-archive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t