Scribbler’s of Brevard

August 23, 2008

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

We had one visitor, Alexa. She is a friend of Maurice. Alexa says is usually a write and likes to write fiction.

Minutes from August 9^th were read and approved.

Scott was not at the meeting for the treasurer’s report but had sent an email stating the balance remains the same. $4,966.71.

Old business: All art work for Driftwood XXVI is all together and Edith has given it to Walt. Gus needs to get with Bluenote who published our book last year, to let them know we intend on using them again this year for publication. Gus was asked to find out how much of a difference printing 200 copies instead of 250 would be. We had so many leftover from last year.

Gus stated he needs to get with Walt to get a page count so he could let the publisher know how many pages there will be.

New business: We need to come up with something to help stop the wobbling of our podium. It is feared that someone may lean on it and it will fall over, possibly causing someone to get injured. Everyone should bring in something to the next meeting that we might use to fix it.

Edith brought up we need to have a dedication for the Driftwood. It is usually dedicated to a member or members who have passed away. Nancy said she would send an email to Walt to remind him of this.

Also brought up was the issue of a book signing party for the Driftwood. Lori Kendrick had stated at a meeting in June that her art gallery would be willing to let us have one there. We have not heard anything else on this. Nancy said she would email Lori to find out if this is still possible.

Due to Fay none of the scheduled readers were present. Luckily quite others had brought in a story or poem they had written.

Roberta announced our first reader:

Maurice who read a story he had written entitled It Is What We Are, That Describes Us. The title describes well what this was about.

Angela was next with another delightful story about her life as a child in Brooklyn. Her story was entitled Dreambook. It was about a special book that was kept on a high shelf in the house and brought down to try and figure out what her papa’s dreams were about.

Marjorie read another of her sci-fi stories. This ones title was Hidden Robot. A very interesting tale about a robot from the year 2033. This robot used to work with a young child’s father at a local university. How he was hiding out in the local junkyard but was still helping the child’s father

Sally read to us a short poem she was going to submit to the Writers Guild. They were holding a contest that limited a person to only 50 words for their work. Her entry was called Death of a Date. It was quite good.

Jean was up next and read to us a story from her book. This story was entitled The Dunes of Velemere. It was about the bootlegger’s in Florida.

Roberta gathered up her courage and read next. She read a poem about getting the urge to write called Question. Her next reading was called The Solider. A look at a soldier’s dream. Her last poem was one she had read before, but someone had asked her to read it again; it was called Keep On Walking Cowboy. It was about a cowboy who had done her wrong.

Nancy was up next and read a poem called Time Is Infinity. Next she read a story she wrote on a dare from David. He wanted her to see if she could use the word “flother” in a story. She managed it in her story called One Small Snowflake.

Our last reader was Gus, who read another chapter from his autobiography. This chapter was called Provisional Government. It was about the way Cuba was before Fidel Castro took over the country in 1959.

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