Next meeting - change of topic

On 27th February Jenn Carson, manageress of Waterstones, will be coming to our group to give us a talk on publishing from the booksellers point of view, we would like to invite you to come along and join us. We meet in Landsdowne Street, our room is between the men's and women's hairdressers, and opposite The Builders. We will be starting at 7pm and if anyone is interested we'll keep a look out for you. So we know you are coming please advise by e mail to:-

pauline@leamingtonspawriters.org.uk

Thanks

Pauline

Waterstones Presentation Saturday 8 February 2014

A presentation was made today by Jenn Carson of Waterstones to Calvin Hedley as winner of the Inkplotters Christmas Story Competition.

Inkplotters Report in the Leamington Spa Courier

District Digest

 

Inkplotters’ January Meeting

Leamington Spa Writers met last Thursday 30 January 2014.

The Inkplotters’ celebrated two recent events by eating a rich fruit cake: Pauline receiving a positive response from a publisher for her draft novel The Affairs of Gods and Men and Douglas passing his one million draft words target set in 2010. 

Members read out each of their 1,000 or so word stories, prepared on the January topic - A Visit. The varied readings generated helpful comments on writing technique, ideas for improvement, ghosts, laughter and appreciation of the creativity and imagination of each of the writers, especially Chris’ two men in black. Calvin read another chapter from his mystery thriller Turning-Point and received comments about his ideas for a cover design. 

A presentation is being arranged in February in Waterstones to the winner of the Inkplotters’ Christmas Short Story Competition.

 

Next meeting Thursday 27 February 2014. Topic – On a dark and foggy night …

See website www.leamingtonspawriters.org.uk for further details about joining the Inkplotters.

 

Canada and the USA

Even managed to add a comment to a comment on my latest post about Leamington Spa and the Inkplotters web site.

http://awriterofhistory.com/2014/02/04/a-reader-of-history-douglas-burcham/#comments

Douglas

What the Inplotters did last year

The Inkplotters have met every month since November 2012.

The first meeting took place in a room in the Fox and Vivian, where members who had registered interest at the Waterstones event then met and introduced each other and what they were writing. Further monthly meetings and a social followed in the Newbold Tavern, where members read out various pieces of their work and received comments.

From January 2013 meetings have taken place in rooms off Lansdowne Street, Leamington Spa.

Each month members updated each other on writing related matters and read further extracts from their draft books or short stories specifically written for each meeting.

Extracts from draft books included the steamy life in and out of hours in a city law firm, a complex personal relationship over several time-frames, a mysterious wartime history thriller linking events in 1982 and 1940 and a fantasy novel where the main character finds he can do the impossible things he thought were only in his dreams.

The short stories on specific topics have included a cliff-hanger; revenge, horror, supernatural and sex scenes and a story based around three objects – a mobile phone, medication and keys.

For the last meeting of 2013 in December, members read out their entries for the Inkplotter’s Christmas competition.

The subject being Stranded in 2000 words with five predetermined character roles, four of whom had to die. Twenty people died that night — almost as bad as Paul Temple!

Stories written by members had been collected at the end of October 2013 and sent to a reading group in the North-east to be read and a winner chosen.

The north-east reading group’s verdict was read out and the winning story was written by Calvin Hedley, and he received the paperbacks generously supplied by Waterstones.

Another local author had also read the entries and provided concise and useful comments on members’ writing.

Overall a very useful and productive year of writing activity.

Douglas 6 2 14

Next meeting of the Inkplotters

Thursday 27 February 2014.

Topic  ... On a dark and foggy night ....

Please e-mail Pauline -

pauline@leamingtonspawriters.org.uk

For further details.

Douglas

Inkplotters in New Zealand

While searching for Leamington Spa authors using various search engines to help set up searching facilities I found lots of sign and will writers and too few authors. Turning to Inkplotters many ink suppliers for printer inks etc plus a very nice site of friends in New Zealand. www.inkplotter.co.nz . I contacted them and they specialise in graphic design and websites . See link for details http://www.inkplotter.co.nz/blog.html With the internet it seems one can do business with firms 12,000 miles away … how amazing.”

Douglas