On Wednesday twenty of us gathered by Zoom to hear Donald Reid’s talk. I didn’t know what he was going to tell us except that… Read More »Mining the facts: articles and non-fiction with Donald Reid – 4 November 2020
‘Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans’ said John Lennon. Certainly for myself, there has been plenty of ‘life’ happening when I… Read More »Title-less tales and twisting plots: an autumnal Readaround – 28 October 2020
“God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December” – J. M. Barrie I was aware of a buzz of ‘boxed’ excitement… Read More »Fifty years, and still going strong; a celebration – 14 October 2020
Wednesday evening arrived with its now familiar online AWC session over Zoom. As usual, I was frantically logging onto my laptop at 19.28 for the… Read More »Letting it escape into the big wide world: novel writing workshop with Jennifer West – 7 October 2020
Eleven AWC members logged in, from the comfort of their living rooms or studies, to our first socially distant feedback night – plus Carrie who… Read More »Let’s Breakout the Babycham and Feedback! – 30 September 2020
Writers’ Club members are taking to the new Zoom format like the proverbial water-fowl. Session 2 of the new season was a club night, in… Read More »A Burgling We Will Go: club night visitors – 23 September 2020
Welcome to the 2020/21 Ayr Writers’ Club season! Opening night went without a hitch on the first of our LIVE Zoom sessions. This year’s President,… Read More »Zoom in for the opener – 16 September 2020
For this evening Ajay had matched us all up with characters from the plays of The Bard himself. Nothing personal in it, he assured us,… Read More »As summer and Readarounds end … 2 September 2020
Apologies firstly because, although I endeavoured to record the evening, I should have written the blog on Thursday before life took over. (Note to self,… Read More »Peak Performances at Readaround – 19 August 2020
Emotions, nostalgia and critical existential questions featured on this Chequerboard of Zoom. In a couple of hours we travelled from an Italian paradise to a… Read More »A Readaround Beano at the Broons – 5 August 2020
Friendly faces smile from the grid of little boxes on my laptop screen, like an online episode of Celebrity Squares. Ooops, remember to click on… Read More »Easy as ABC – Zoom Readaround 22 July 2020
Readaround Number Three was another enjoyable and productive evening. We are getting used to the new normal i.e., seeing our writing friends stacked up in… Read More »Opening the boxes: a revelation Readaround – 8 July 2020