Report of Meeting Held 15th February 2005

Apologies for absence were received from Caz who is
on holiday in Salisbury and, hopefully enjoying herself. Hope she will be back
for the next meeting! Happy Birthday to Scott who should soon recover
from his birthday bash, from Diane who is now back on her course and
another apology from Sharon & Keith. Don't despair, they will
return!

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A special welcome to Rachel who returned to the fold after a
few weeks away, Joining her in attendance were Peter, Allen, Les,
Gordon, Liliane, Ken, Alex, Christine, Sue, Morag, Belinda, Tony, Dick, Judy,
Ann, Richard, Dave and

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Members and Other News:

Last week's Committee meeting had to be called off and another
will be arranged at a suitable time.

Minutes of the last meeting were handed to those members who
have no access to the Internet, and this is something we will try to provide
from now on.

After some production problems the in-house Chapter & Verse
magazine for Libraries and Heritage staff has at last passed the final hurdle
and has now been delivered. It was quite problematic this time with computer
breakdowns massive picture files and the like. Glad to say that is my turn as
guest editor out of the way - perhaps until the next time! - Dave

Party Time

Belinda says that she and Geoff and are going out
for her birthday early in March [Tuesday 8^th March} and asks if the
Scribblers would like to join them for some good food, a great chat and maybe a
drink or two at The Grosvenor where we all had such a lovely time last month.

 

Felixstowe TV and the mini-soap series.

Following on from the outline by Chris at our last meeting and
the homework which came up with a whole cross section of ideas and few written
words.

Some of those ideas are shown here:-

Peter thought of a gunman holding up a shop when a roving
reporter walks in and reveals some dramatic news….

A car whose brakes failed on Bent Hill ends up in the sea. No
volunteers as everyone wants to keep their cars shining!

Les suggested a family "The Flints" and delivered his
description of the characters with a wide cross section of ages.

Ken thought about a site in a café perhaps where there was
movement of people, coming and going, an errant husband who was thought to be
having an affair but was actually doing something completely different.

Alex had a similar idea to Les about using a family but
thought the Market could be a good setting with plenty of movement. There could
also be something like a Christianity theme included…

Morag had built up her characters and suggested two of them
had a beach hut and went metal detecting. Another character had a dog. They
discovered a body on the beach - which turned out to be a mannequin!

A multitude of ideas that came from Belinda included
Felixstowe's own Loch Ness Monster, a Hairdresser from Hell, Crisis in a broken
down car, Felixstowe going on strike, and a Pageant,

Tony took up on Ken's idea and suggested the wayward
husband was not having an affair at all but would rather admit to that than the
truth - training to be a referee - the second most despised profession in the
world behind his actual career as a traffic warden. Also the Pier could be
closed as Aliens had landed on it.

Dick thought that it should be something of a travelogue
with a kind of story line chase or search from place to place Perhaps two but
ruthless hitmen named Rita and Percy - a plastic bag that was carried everywhere

Someone suggested that a character could be selling weed - not
drugs but seaweed…

Another suggestion was death rays from Bawdsey…

Caz sent in ideas for three characters a mother a son and a
café owner.

My idea was for two central characters appearing in each
episode, old Suffolk boys or a couple, basically commenting on everything that
happened.

Scott also sent in his ideas and even though they were
thought to be a bit too much, such as the survivors of a plane crash washing up
on the shore then trying to live at the fort {Dick knows where the key is kept!}
There could be murder, an evil spirit, or even cannibals appearing in the cast.

And then there was a sock….

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There was a lot of discussion with ideas being developed and
finally half the group decided they would like to be involved in writing the
series and stayed behind after the meeting to create a plot and characters for
the first episode.

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Felixstowe TV can be found at href="http://felixstowetv.co.uk">face=Arial>http://felixstowetv.co.uk.

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The website is going from strength to strength and several
ideas are being developed. Everyone's imput will be valued and some suggestions
have already been received from Jan. The site can be viewed at

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Comments and suggestions direct to Alex, please on any
aspect of the site.

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Don't forget that if you want to sample a modern adult type
novel or a book of poetry by Dee Rimbaud then contact Dave. These are available
in pdf files and would be forwarded in that format.

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Similarly, to the Mills and Boon readers amongst the group -
there surely must be some! - they are on the lookout for new writers and have
sent a comprehensive 22 page set of guide lines. Again anyone interested contact
Dave.

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A reminder that a 50 pence fee per meeting operates from now.
This entitles everyone to a cup of tea or coffee and a biscuit.

Will everyone please bring their own mugs with them for future
meetings…

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The next Scribblers meeting will be on March
1st at 7.30pm

The homework is GRIDLOCK suggested by Rachel,
and everyone except those involved with the mini-soap will should
write around 250 + words on the subject. For once there will be no long pieces
as part of the meeting will be to hear and comment on the first draft script of
the soap.

 

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Keep Scribbling,

Dave
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