James Barclay

[Malop]

James gave the attendees an exercise to do, for those who wanted.

The exercise was to write a short fight scene that included the following elements:
7 people in the fight
2 survive
1 loses courage
1 comes out a hero

Three of the attendees volunteered to read out their scene and James commented on each one. All of the attendees agreed that the three scenes were good.
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Member and President of the Will Begman Appreciation Society.
Fantasycon 2005 Walsall Attendee
Fantasycon 2006-2009 Nottingham Attendee
Fantasycon 2010 Nottingham (stopped over for lunch)
Fantasycon 2011 Brighton (Is that in France?)

[Malop]

Here's my fight scene from the workshop.

Donall entered the dark room first, stepping to the left to join the darkness. Sensing no movement he motioned through the doorway for Saler to step behind him.
As her outline was framed in the doorway the room lit up with the brightness of 1000 candles. "Magic", Donall managed to to shout as the blindness overcame him.
The five strangers stepped forward. Four of them removed blindfolds from their eyes. The fifth fell to the floor eyes closed in agony.
Donall stepped into the middle of the room, moving as fast as possible. He drew his sword and swung it fast and wild. The four circled him, taking the stances of veteran warriors.

That's all I had time for.
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Member and President of the Will Begman Appreciation Society.
Fantasycon 2005 Walsall Attendee
Fantasycon 2006-2009 Nottingham Attendee
Fantasycon 2010 Nottingham (stopped over for lunch)
Fantasycon 2011 Brighton (Is that in France?)

[Tk421]

maybe it's something we could expand on here perhaps?
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"Right so we're going to steal a bomb that can be remote detonated, take it back to our base and then huddle around it? That sounds like a great plan."

[TheJovialGnome]

It could be that I attended fraudulently as I have no inclination to write anything but I do love reading!

As ever, James was both informative and witty and the two hours passed way too quickly - I enjoyed every minute of it!

Just don't offer to buy Sir Robin a drink - a Jack Daniels and Coke in each hand, young kids these days, I don't know.....
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"Constant Vigilance!"

[Tk421]

that's a good point.. how did he end up with 2 drinks?
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"Right so we're going to steal a bomb that can be remote detonated, take it back to our base and then huddle around it? That sounds like a great plan."

[Drizzt]

I wanted to do this, but writing 'long hand' is something I've grown out of the habit of doing well (been years since I wrote like that at uni or college). Now I'm back in front of PCs and my laptop, I'll be posting mine shortly. I plan to follow James' advice of having the start and the finish sorted in my head, then just writing it without stopping, for ten minutes....
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Pagan Music

[Malop]

Looking forward to reading it Drizzt. Maybe other forum members who weren't there want to have a go as well.
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Member and President of the Will Begman Appreciation Society.
Fantasycon 2005 Walsall Attendee
Fantasycon 2006-2009 Nottingham Attendee
Fantasycon 2010 Nottingham (stopped over for lunch)
Fantasycon 2011 Brighton (Is that in France?)

[sir robin]

[TheJovialGnome]

Alas, I paid for them both - don't know whether it was the lack of clarity in my diction or her cloth ears It just seemed easier not to argue and I had a sneaking suspicion that you could manage both!
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"Constant Vigilance!"

[sir robin]

her cloth ears most likely mate. it set me up nicly for the night after anyway. lol
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[Tk421]

just out of interest if anyone is going to post their exercise on here where should it go? In here or member's work?
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"Right so we're going to steal a bomb that can be remote detonated, take it back to our base and then huddle around it? That sounds like a great plan."

[Drizzt]

I'll be posting mine on here when I get a spare ten minutes to make one up!
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Pagan Music

[Tk421]

then so shall I. Peer presure and all that.
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"Right so we're going to steal a bomb that can be remote detonated, take it back to our base and then huddle around it? That sounds like a great plan."