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The Huddle Huddle February 22nd - 5.00pm UK time

Information about our weekly Writers' Huddle

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Our weekly Writers' Huddle takes place, as it does every week, this Saturday. At the bottom of the post you will find a link to the Huddle Hangout Forum. If you wish to be included in this week's session, then simply post your name below (in this thread) with an optional message along the lines of (Yes please. Count me in... You betcha... etc.)

When you add your name, you will be included in the Private Group in the Huddle Hangout. Then, when you click the link below, to take you to the Hangout, you just select the post with the relevant date, wherein the Zoom Meeting Link will found in the first post of that group thread. :) Please note, when added to the group you should also receive a notification. So you now have two ways of getting to the session on the day.

This sign up thread will be posted here every week.

If you've not attended one before - what happens in Huddles?


Put simply, every week when the Private Group thread goes live (normally Thursday AM - UK time) you can post work for @AgentPeteand fellow Huddlers to offer critique and suggestions on. These submissions can be anything - from the opening pages of your work in progress, to a blurb, synopsis or query letter. Nothing is out of bounds. General questions on the publishing industry are encouraged and if you spot something you feel is worth sharing with the group, then that's also welcomed.

So don't be shy, there's no pressure and you don't need to submit work. You can simply attend just to watch and listen or help with the critique. The atmosphere is completely relaxed and there is anyways lots of fun.

Huddle Hangout LINK
 
Yes please :)

P.S. Marry Poppins last Saturday was indeed Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! Same story but a variation on the plot. Clever. And the set engineering: Superb! Go and see it if it comes anywhere near you.

(P.S. I stuck flowers in my hat and stood in my high-heeled boots with my feet turned out so that I would look practically perfect. I received many an amused look ;))
 

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Yes, please, count me. I had internet issues last weekend, hopefully Deutsche Telekom has sorted it out! We really do have crappy internet options in Berlin.
We just got upgraded (in our Brandenburg manor, so far outside Berlin (okay, two blocks)) to about a tenth the speed of what was standard ten years ago in DC. Still, 100 mps works well
 
I'm in Austria this week and then visiting relatives next weekend so i'll see you all in 3 weeks. Have a useful huddle. Miss you already. Now, get back to work.
;)
 
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