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A reduced Pen Club met at Taliah's on the 22nd March, 2012.

News

TD - As usual, Taliah had the most interesting set of news. Her trip to Orkney is going ahead, but not quite as planned as her moving company has gone bust. She has also recently acquired two bull mastiff puppies, because merely moving 650 miles with five children was not sufficiently challenging. In preparation for tending the Highland Cattle which come with her new home, she has successfully completed DEFRA registration for animal husbandry.

TJ - Tony revealed that he has been attending Theo Theobald's stand up comedy workshop and will be appearing the the Artrix in Bromgrove on the Saturday, 7th April. Tickets are selling fast. In addition, Tony has produced some more instalments of his Littlehope saga as well as adding a few more words to Sir Lostthelot

TB - Tim had little to share except that he has a few new short stories which are either at the first draft stage or still in progress. Havergoe is still rumbling along having passed, as Tony put it, "the point of no return", which is found somewhere just short of 20,000 words.

Critique

Taliah was the only recipient of the club critique this week with a family oriented story aimed at "the People's Friend" market. The response was extremely positive from Tim and Tony, comments on punctuation and grammar notwithstanding and it was felt that it was well suited to its intended market (although no-one would actually confess to being a regular reader of the People's Friend) and was highly marketable piece of work.

..and the next time

It's Tim's turn to be criticised next time - apart from that, nothing regarding the next meeting has been decided.

Next meeting:

Date - TBD

Venue - TBD

Critiquee - Tim