Right then. Weekly meetings.
The Plan: informal, A few drinks, some creative discussion, venting of frustrations! Meet your fellow NaNoers and share your most recent scribblings. We'd love it if you printed out some of your work to hand around, just don't expect to get it back totally free from beer/coffee stains :D
The Challenges: Every week either SheBit or myself will set a mini challenge, usually asking you to work something into whatever you happen to be writing that week. We'll post the challenge as a new topic on the discussion board.
If you want to take part, just post the short section of your novel that meets the challenge as a reply in the challenge thread. We'll print them all out and chose the one that we think deserves a prize. This might be because it makes us laugh, is well written, or possibly contains words that SheBit doesn't know (this almost NEVER happens). The winner gets a prize! Yay!
If whatever we suggest just doesn't fit in with your story (or if you're on a roll and don't want to take part in our silliness), don't worry about it. It's just meant to be a bit of fun, and could possibly be used as an anti-writer's block device.
The Quizzes: At each meeting there will be some kind of devious quiz to test you all on... erm... stuff. Last year we had quizzes on grammar (oooh that SheBit, she's a picky one!), movie adaptations, and matching main characters to authors. There are also prizes for the winer of each quiz, double yay!
The Dates: We're following last year's format, trying to have a meeting on different days of each week so that people with weekly commitments on certain days can come and see our lovely faces at least once!
Launch Party- Friday 30th October, The Sanctuay Cafe, 51-55 Brunswick St. Hove. 7:30pm onwards.
Week 1 Meeting- Friday 6th November, The George, 5 Trafalgar St. Brighton, 7:30pm onwards.
Week 2 Meeting- Wednesday 11th November, TBA, 7:30pm onwards.
Week 3 Meeting- Thursday 19th November, The Sanctuay Cafe, 51-55 Brunswick St. Hove. 7:30pm onwards.
Week 4 Meeting- Tuesday 24th November, The George, 5 Trafalgar St. Brighton, 7:30pm onwards.
TGIO Party- Tuesday 1st December, TBA, 7:30pm onwards.
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