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July 05, 2005
Small steps
Just got back from my first Cambridge Writers meeting. This evening Isobel Dixon from the Blake Friedmann Literary Agency spoke on how to get published. A very inspiring talk but the number of people that turned up to listen in Cambridge on a rainy weekday evening made me feel like a tiny fish in an enormous ocean.
They have two types of meeting firstly like tonight, monthly talks by those in the biz and secondly meetings where you take along a piece of work to read out (ugh!) and hopefully end up with some constructive criticism from everybody else. This is something that I could really use but you know me and my fear of speaking in public! However I did have a little trick up my sleeve to make sure I do attend in future, I parted with an £18 membership fee because there’s only one thing that puts the fear of God in me more than having to read my work to a roomload of strangers and that is wasting good money.
Posted by purple elephant at July 5, 2005 11:15 PM