Cleckheaton Writer's Group (CWG) met at 5.30pm at Cleckheaton Library with Molly, Gemma, Reuben, Kathy and Karen in attendance, Alice, Cassie, Paul and Michelle having passed their apologies.
The minutes from the last meeting were agreed as a correct record (thanks again to Kathy).
WIP Updates: Karen edited chapters 25-48 Christmas Evie, reworked opening chapters of Burning for You, wrote a potential new chapter one for Christmas Evie and Burning for You (brought for feedback), pitched My Grandma is A Vampire and The Devil’s in the Doughballs for #PBPitch and pitched Digital Heroin and Half-lands for #PitDark. Kathy has been editing her WIP Tobias checking it grammatically. Reuben has started on chapter two of his WIP and researched how a cathedral is laid out and has written a short poem which he will bring to CWG at some point. Molly has attended an online zoom poetry course and shared her work on screen for feedback, which went well, and attended Arts and Activism in Theatre in the Mill where you had 15 minutes to write a poem.
CW comps/workshops/events: Hachette Children’s Award opens 26 October (deadline 8 Jan), CBC Gillian McAllister novel-writing (deadline 29 Oct), CBC John Le Carre Scholarship (deadline 29 Oct), Birmingham Literature Festival (Karen has brochure), poetry foundation (deadline 31st) and Prima magazine competition, 1k words.
Writing plans: Karen hopes to get chapters 49-52 edited and then start NaNoWriMo which she hopes will help her finish the first sequel to her book. Kathy will carry on with Tobias and add to the story. Reuben will work on chapter two. Molly will be attending another Zoom workshop 4-5, write a flash fiction, enter poetry foundation competition, type up the work she has done and enter the Black History poetry month competition. She has also booked a ticket for the Ink Spill (Huddersfield Head of Steam) event via EventBrite on Friday 17th 7-10pm. Gemma will conduct more research on the history of mental disability in our country and how well we treated it.
Feedback sessions: Karen shared her new potential chapter ones for two of her MSs which led to a discussion about feedback and POVs. It was felt some aspects of the new chapters worked well but it might be better to drip feed the information in (as it was before in the MS) rather than starting the MSs with the new chapters.
The date of the next meeting takes place on Monday 13 November at 5.30pm at Cleckheaton Library. New members always welcome.
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