Writing Buddies moved to a new, monthly meeting format recently and this has proved to be successful. Buddies have more time to write between gatherings and consequently have more to say when they all get together.
One casualty though has been the minuting of meetings. The group's founder, Penny Legg, attends most of the group's meetings but does not have the time in her schedule to write up the notes taken at the time. She has been very grateful to Jacqueline Pye and Elizabeth Streatfield, who have between them taken on the role of keeping the world up to date with the writing lives of the Buddies. However, both of these writers have found coming to the meetings every month difficult recently and the blog has suffered as a result. Penny has had to have a rethink about the blog as a consequence.
From now onwards, the blog will continue to try to give a flavour of what each Writing Buddy has been up to but will also give information on local festivals, events and such like, too. Thus, when there is no scribe to write up the meeting, there will be no notes but there may be other information, relevant to all writers locally and further afield. Penny hopes that readers of this blog will like the change. If not, perhaps they would like to volunteer to come along and write the notes for this blog themselves!
The next meeting of Writing Buddies is on Friday 7 September at the Art House Cafe, Above Bar, Southampton, starting at 2pm. Everyone is welcome.
The Guildford Book Festival is coming up shortly. If you have not sampled its delights, here is a peep at what is on offer:
One casualty though has been the minuting of meetings. The group's founder, Penny Legg, attends most of the group's meetings but does not have the time in her schedule to write up the notes taken at the time. She has been very grateful to Jacqueline Pye and Elizabeth Streatfield, who have between them taken on the role of keeping the world up to date with the writing lives of the Buddies. However, both of these writers have found coming to the meetings every month difficult recently and the blog has suffered as a result. Penny has had to have a rethink about the blog as a consequence.
From now onwards, the blog will continue to try to give a flavour of what each Writing Buddy has been up to but will also give information on local festivals, events and such like, too. Thus, when there is no scribe to write up the meeting, there will be no notes but there may be other information, relevant to all writers locally and further afield. Penny hopes that readers of this blog will like the change. If not, perhaps they would like to volunteer to come along and write the notes for this blog themselves!
The next meeting of Writing Buddies is on Friday 7 September at the Art House Cafe, Above Bar, Southampton, starting at 2pm. Everyone is welcome.
The Guildford Book Festival is coming up shortly. If you have not sampled its delights, here is a peep at what is on offer:
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