April 2020

As with numerous other societies, due to Corona Virus precautions, Wombourne Writers were unable to hold their meeting scheduled for 1st April, at their usual venue. As Richie S.Moore, was to give a presentation on the “media”, it was thought appropriate that our meeting should be held in the form of a virtual video conference and Emma, very efficiently, organized a group circle on the “Slack” website, which also included a video conferencing facility by incorporating “Slack Zoom”. One or two group members had difficulty in “logging in” to this site but by the time set for the meeting, most of the regular group members had mastered the system and were able to participate in the group video conference, chaired by Richie.. He initially gave a short informative talk on current media trends. Following his suggestion, the group agreed to start a community group on an existing Wombourne Writers Facebook site page (@wombourne writers), which Emma had opened and had been running for some time. Richie therefore proceeded to expand this page, to include a community group section and by the time the meeting closed, all those members present, who wished to be involved, were linked into the website. On behalf of the group, I would like to express our gratitude to Richie, for establishing this group Facebook page, which I am sure will be a great help in promoting Wombourne Writers, in the future. Our next meeting will be another “Slack Zoom” video conference on Wednesday 6 th April commencing approx. 7.30pm and I look forward to seeing you all on this occasion or by contact via the Facebook page or my personal blog which also has a link on the group Facebook page. Congratulations to Helena Dixon on the release of the second book in her Miss Underhay Investigates series. Keep up the writing by blogging me. My best regards. Eric Newton. Vice Chairman.