Failing Better
Sara Baroni and myself have taken it into our heads once more to organise a writers’ social.
So if you’d like to come down the pub and chat about writing for stage and screen and radio and perhaps even game-controller, who knows?, we shall be at the Knights Templar in Chancery Lane on the evening of Thursday 18th March 2010.
7pm till closing; all welcome.
This weekend, I shall mostly be on a TAPS Continuing Drama course in Cardiff.
TAPS is an industry training scheme for writers. For two-and-a-half days you get taught how to write a Continuing Drama (with particular emphasis on Emmerdale), and then you go away and write a short drama using the Emmerdale sets.
Some of these even get filmed and shown to Important People.
But that’s in the future. Or not, depending on how well I do.
More important, is this:
I’m going to be travelling up the night before, that’s this Thursday (the 28th). Should be arriving in Cardiff about 9:30pm – so if you’re on TAPS yourself, or are in Cardiff generally and fancy meeting up on the Thursday night, let me know.
If you, like Jason Arnopp and I, are going to the Cheltenham Screenwriters Festival this year, you may have several things on your mind.
Like “I don’t know any of these high-powered people. How will I get over my shyness and speak to anyone?”
Or “Whose round is it?”
Fortunately both of those questions can be answered at the same time by coming to the inaugural Beckley-Arnopp Cheltenham Scribomeet. Or possibly the Arnopp-Beckley Cheltenham Scribomeet. Whatever floats your boat.
It’s a non-threatening chance to meet other writers the evening before the festival kicks off. That way you’ll have some friendly faces to talk to over the next three days.
It will begin at 6pm blunt on the night of Monday 30th June in the Harvester pub next to the Cheltenham Travelodge.
Which should make it nice and easy to stagger home to your bed either there or in the Thistle.
Come along.
Say hello.
Drink beer.
Or we will destroy you with our giant floating hands.
