We meet at the Parish Rooms [streetview from Paradise Road] [streetview from George St] above La Buvette down the alley by Richmond Parish Church. More traditional map click here.
We’re there every Wednesday, 7:45 for 8:00 pm start and end at 10:00 pm. NOTE: Christmas and August may vary, look back here nearer the time. Outline of meetings here. All welcome, no auditions necessary! Contact us at: RWC
Just to let you know, we will not be meeting on the 11th of April. Easter and all that. Otherwise, come along, there seem to be quite a few reading slots at the moment.
At one point last year, the RWC was distinctly lacking in members at meetings. Not members altogther, but actual ones turning up. As membership is free and we only take a small fee to anyone turning up to a meeting, this was putting a hole in our finances. The solution was faily obvious – make a bit more noise and remind people to come along. That we did, and things turned around quite well.
One of our efforts was to set up a page with Meetup.com which you can see here:
http://www.meetup.com/Richmond-Writers-Circle/
Unfortunately they charge us to keep the page going and the ongoing expense seems unecessary, so we;ve decided to drop the page. We would, however, like to encourage people who spotted it to come over here – or preferrably actually come to a real life meeting. To that end, could any RWC person reading this (that means YOU!) go to that page and agree to go to the suggested meetup. The reason being that we only need three people to say they are willing to go to the meeting and the web site automatically e-mails people that have joined to tell them of it. Go on! We only need three people and one person (yours truly) has already done it!
We are sorry to have to announce that word has come to us of the death of Gerry Ball.
Gerry was a long term and much loved member of the RWC. His insight, empathy and sense of humour will be greatly missed.
There will be a service of thanksgiving for Gerry on Thursday (the 15th of March) at 5pm at St Mark’s Church, which is just behind Wimbledon Library.
We’re back. Actually, we’ve been back for a bit now (see the post about the Xmas break below).
Twice a year we have a competition, and one of them is next month. As you are doubtless aware, the 14th of February has been designated by an international conspiracy of jewelers, restaurateurs, card makers, rose growers and makers of naff teddy bears and other such rubbish, as Spend-a-Fortune-on-Ludicrously-Overpriced-Love-Tokens-to-Avoid-Being-in-Deep-Trouble-with-the-Other-Half Day.
Whilst we denounce this conspiracy, we at the Richmond Writers’ Circle are artistes (ahem) and Love is one of the great themes of literature. So get writing for our competition to be on Wednesday the 15th of February. It’ll come round faster than you think. There’ll be a token prize. Get on with it (yeah, it’s tough love). Rules:
LOVE THEME COMPETITION
Write a love story or poem. It can be comic, romantic, cynical or tragic.
Rules and Guidance
(1) Word Limit for stories is 2,000
(approx 10 minutes reading time)
(2) Only one category can be entered by each person
(3) One poem or one short story only
(4) Plays or scripts to be read by the author only no help is allowed
(5) No copies of poems or stories to be distributed
(6) Latecomers will not be permitted to enter the competition nor vote
(7.40 for 8.00 start)
(7) Register your intention to read when you arrive
(you will not be allowed to compose a poem or story
during the competition to be read at the end)If there are less than 4 poems the voting will be 1st & 2nd of all works read.
http://richmondwriterscircle.org/competitions-love-and-death/
Oh dear, the global economy is going belly up, the weather is dreadful, the time of year miserable, and on top of all that, we have to put up with Christmas yet again. Oh, well, I suppose some of you enjoy it. Here is what I’ve been told to say by the less Scrooge-like members:
At a recent meeting we discussed the dates of the Christmas break. Our last meeting of the year will be on Wednesday December 14th. After it we will have a short party – a bring-a-bottle/packet-of-crisps/mince pie kind of do.
We will meet again in the New Year on Wednesday 11th January. Hopefully this will give people time to recover from the festive season and write something new and amazing.
“Tidings of comfort and joy to one and all.” Said Tiny Tim.
There are all sorts of books and courses that claim they can make you a writer, even a great writer, or at least make the process easier. There is even software. It is hard to see how software could help. After all Shakespeare managed quite well without anything as high tech as even a Biro. However, some people swear by writing things on bits of paper or cards and shuffling them around, and software can help you do that. It is sort of a step on from word processing software which most people today couldn’t do without. Perhaps readers of this site might have a go at the following and let us know what they think:
http://www.storylite.com/
