Scribbler’s of Brevard

August 9, 2008

The meeting was called to order by our President David Clark at 1000.

Before visitors were announced we were asked to vote on the cover art for this years Driftwood. We were asked to vote on our favorite picture or art work. Voting was limited to only three votes. Once the voting was done the top three would be selected for the final vote for the cover.

We had several visitors today.

Ann Foster a retired school teacher. She found out about our group in the newspaper.
Betty Lou Clark a student of Jean’s who thought she would stop in and see what we were about.
Chris Tanner a friend of Tara. He is a photographer.
Ken Steeprow who writes novels and poetry.
Roy Valdez a retired Harris employee who wants to write. His wife saw something in the paper about us.
Judy Burnhart an old member who had been away for about 2 years and wanted to get back into writing again.

Old Business: Regarding our meeting of July 12^th and the material read. We as a group should not censure anything that is read. What we come together for is help with what we have written; to get constructive criticism on it. There should be no need for any off handed comments while a work is being read. If someone does not like what is being read, they should get up and leave the room and come back when 10 minutes have passed. As for going over the allotted time limit, this is up to the Vice President to rule on. We all have at one time or another gone over our limit. It was suggested that we practice our reading before we come for time length.

Nancy read the minutes from the July 12th. They were approved as read.

Scott read the treasures report we still have $$4,966.71 in our account.

New business: Walt and Marge spent a tremendous amount of time proofreading our prose and poetry. They came up with a list of helpful suggestions for issues they had found and how we could improve on our punctuation.

If you need help on this you can contact Julie Lee. It was also suggested a purchase of a style guide for writing would be beneficial.

Jim Badger is down with a kidney disorder. He is currently at home resting and doing well.

Lou was back it was wonderful to see him. He was missed at our last meeting.

Janet Bruce announced that Barbara Hubbard had passed away. She was a past member of our group.

Voting for the cover resulted in a colorful painting done by Lori Kendrick being chosen to adorn the front of this years Driftwood. Thanks to everyone who brought in something to be judged. We had a fantastic turnout this year!

Roberta announced our first reader:

Edith said she had two whimsies to share with us. The first was called Man on the Roof. About accepting love or help from God no matter how it comes to us. You never know just what form it will take. Her second whimsy was called A Love Story. A story about the love of a man and a woman. How she knew it was here time to go and how she had accepted it and helped him to understand it.

Nancy, was up next with a story that was inspired over lunch at San Remo’s the week before; by something Jean had mentioned. The story was called Barcoded. It was about a child being created through in vitro fertilization.

David, read to us a story called Deus Absconsicus. It was about Annie Dillard and her essays on pain and cruelty..

Committee Time was Scott’s reading for the day. An insightful look at serving time on a committee and having the time to actually do a good job.

Maurice was our final reader. He read us an email he had received from his granddaughter and his response to her email. How he tried to get out of her request for him to start writing his life story.

The meeting was then adjourned at 1130 with an invitation for everyone to meet for lunch at San Remo’s.

Respectfully submitted,

Nancy Clark

Scribblers of Brevard

Secretary