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January 16, 2008
LONELY SCREENWRITERS Of The World
LONELY SCREENWRITERS - HELLO OUT THERE !!!
Anyone interested in joining a Screenwriters' Circle?
If so, let's get together Thursday January 24th at the IMAC Resource Room to discuss the possibility of meeting on a regular basis.
In preparation for the first meeting please spend some thought on the following:
- What would you like to get out of a writers'group?
- How often would you like to meet?
- Would you participate in writing exercises unrelated to your own work?
- Would you like an opportunity to critique and to be critiqued?
- Would you like to post-mortem previous works?
- Would you like to discover writing partnerships?
That should be enough to guide us through our first season.
If you have a script that you feel would benefit from peer group feedback please bring it along. Hard copy is best since not all word-processing formats are supported on our computers.
Partly as an entertainment and partly to get our juices going I'd like to suggest a few writing exercises based on an item I recently pulled from an old idea file.
It's a Dear Abby column from 2005.(Perhaps it's my fascination with the tawdry, perhaps it's the skeletal telling of the story, whatever the reason I am drawn back to this little drama over and over again. It suggests low comedy and high comedy, spoof and study, melodrama, treatise, tragedy and farce.)
Think about additional characters and scenes.
The Guardian, Saturday, November 12, 2005 p C6
GIFTS OF MONEY BLOW AWAY IN WHIRLWIND OF MARRIAGE
DEAR ABBY:
My 22-year-old niece, "Brittany", married her boyfriend of many years last month in a lavish production of a wedding financed entirely by her father (my brother). On the invitations it was mentioned that their home was fully furnished, so in lieu of gifts, they'd appreciate money for their honeymoon to the Dominican Republic.
Most family members generously complied and chipped in $300 to $500 each. My widowed grandmother, who lives on a fixed income, even sent them $50.
Four days after their return from the honeymoon, Brittany threw her husband of two weeks out of the house and moved in with her new boyfriend, who she'd first met when he "entertained" at her bachelorette party three weeks prior. To say we are all surprised is putting it mildly.
No one has heard from Brittany since, and no explanation has been offered. My mother recently got her on the phone, and Brittany quickly ended the conversation by claiming all the money had been "spent" and that her now ex-husband had any funds that remained.
(We know this can't be true because the distraught groom recently approached my brother and asked him to pay for the annulment.)
Doesn't etiquette dictate that Brittany return all gifts - including cash - as the marriage ended just days after the cheque cleared the bank? Is this why there's a 12-month window in which to send wedding gifts?
- ANGRY IN SAN FRANCISCO
I'll bring the original with Abby's response to the meeting.
Have a whack at it.
See you January 24th, 7:00pm
There will, of course, be snacks.
No fees. No registration. Just show up. For more information e-mail me (David Bennett)
storyinthemaking@yahoo.ca
Can't make the meeting but interested in joining later? No problem. E-mail above.
Posted by kier at January 16, 2008 11:29 AM