Scribblers of Brevard
March 22, 2008
Our President David
Clark called the meeting to order at 10:00. We had one visitor Olga, who was
from
Minutes from the the
March 8th meeting were read. There were corrections made and then
minutes were approved as read.
Treasurer Scott
Tilley reported we had $4525 dollars in our account. He still has several
checks that need to be deposited. Scott is still working on updating our
roster. Again if anyone has issues with their personal information being released
to all members please contact him and let him know. Hopefully an updated roster
will be available soon.
Old Business: Submissions for the Driftwood. Do we
currently have enough submissions to make a good sized edition? What is being
done to publicize our book. Norma Baird was present and announced we had 26 prose
and 25 poems submitted so far. Deadline for the Driftwood is currently 31
March. So far there has been no
publicity county wide for submissions. Jean is still working to get something
in one of the papers annoucing we need submissions. A hand count was requested
by David Clark to see how many people still need to get something turned in.
There were 10 more folks who wanted to submit. A vote was taken on extending
the deadline for the Driftwood until April 12th. Members voted on
and passed the extension. The deadline for the Driftwood is now April 12th.
Edith announced we
still need photos, paintings or drawings for the Driftwood. It was also brought
up that any paintings, drawings or photos for the cover should relate to
New Business: Jim
Badger announced he has a CD out. Kay Williams helped out with the background
music and her husband Don did the front cover work. The CD is called Say Of Me and is available for $10.
Bill Allen announced
he has copies of his much sought after book Greg
Hart, Dragonslayer for sale. For a mere $10 for a defaced copy or $14.95
for a non defaced copy. These current ones will be collectors items as he has
changed to front cover somewhat in the new editon.
Gus said he has
current issues of the Driftwood for sale for $5 get them while we still have
them!
Readers were
announced. First to read was Bette with a story called
Walt was up next who
put a ending to the story Jean started last week.The story was called He Said She Said. It was quite an intersting turn to the story.
He also left it without a proper ending for someone else to add a part.
Jean read us an
article she found on the internet A Whole
Toni read us some of
her poetry the first one was called Useless
Poem. She followed this one with The
Hunter, Thirty Third Floor, Changing Jobs, The Curtain, and Lost Slug. As
always Toni’s poems were quite humorous.
Bill read to us for
the last time from his book Greg Hart,
Dragonslayer. If we want to learn more about Greg Hart and his adventures
as a dragonslayer we will need to buy the book. He will start reading from one
of his new books soon.
Sally gave us a short
little four liner.
Grouchy Grammarian
Corner: Infinitives are our friends. Infinitives are
the purest forms of verbs. They have no tense or no person and they always
include the word “to”. The rule of the old school is “Thou shalt not split an
infinitive”. The new updated rule is “You can split an infinitive if you know
you are doing it and you have a reason to do it”. A well known use of the infinitive is To be or not to be. One of the better known splits of an
infinitive is To boldy go where no one
has gone before. In Latin you cannot split an infinitive.
The meeting was
adjourned at 11:30 by David Clark.
Nancy Clark
Nancy Clark
Secretary