Minutes.<\/p>\n
Present: Roddie, Richard, Craig, Ray, David F. and David C.<\/p>\n
1. Business.<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. Fifty Shades\u2026<\/p>\n The idea of hiring students to give layout proposals is still seen as a good one. It was agreed that we (NW) should make direct contact with an appropriate class, and ask for entries to a pictorial competition, and that we would select the one that best reflected our ideas. We agreed a payment of up to \u00a3150.<\/p>\n Craig will make contact and report back.<\/p>\n Layout. Craig made suggestions as to how the pieces might be ordered. He had divided them into 5 categories; Craig said that he would send round to all members his suggested ordering and get reactions<\/p>\n Roddie will contact Dundee Literary Festival to seek a slot in the next Festival.<\/p>\n Deadline. We hoped that April might be a realistic aim.<\/p>\n Outlets for selling: Discovery Point, Tourist Office, Watermill Aberfeldy, and others.<\/p>\n 2. City of Culture bid.<\/p>\n General regret expressed at the decision to suspend participation (although feeling was pessimistic about a positive outcome to the review). 3. AGM.<\/p>\n This needs to be held by 11April at the latest (ie 15 months maximum since the last one.) D.C. will email the committee to set up a meeting in January to finalise date and agenda.<\/p>\n 2. Writing.<\/strong><\/p>\n Roddie had circulated two pieces.<\/p>\n (a) Polarity of Horizons.<\/p>\n A powerful poem dealing with bi-polar and related issues. The sustained metaphor was particularly appreciated., and we had a good discussion about an image late in the second verse about musical chairs.<\/p>\n (b) Carpe Diem.<\/p>\n This is an elegiac eulogy, and a very effective one. Many recognisable human failings are alluded to: And of course it doesn\u2019t happen. The last line is also a summary of the themes: David C. 2 December 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Minutes. Present: Roddie, Richard, Craig, Ray, David F. and David C. 1. Business. 1. Fifty Shades\u2026 The idea of hiring students to give layout proposals is still seen as a good one. It was agreed that we (NW) should make direct contact with an appropriate class, and ask for entries to a pictorial competition, and… Read More »Nethergate Writers Meeting – 29th November 2017 – Minutes<\/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-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meeting-archive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n– areas outside Dundee
\n– specific to river and bridges
\n– transport
\n– old Dundee
\n– modern Dundee<\/p>\n
\nWe will look again at our project to see if there is any mileage in going it alone. David C. to do this with another volunteer (any takers?)<\/p>\n
\n\u201cWe would catch up , eventually,
\nNo worries\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\u201cTime makes fools of us all.\u201d<\/p>\n