The Fight to Write Conference

The first Disresponsible Nodpot Writers Conference will take place this Saturday, 10th March, in Dublin. The inaugural conference is entitled The Fight To Write. Guest speakers include current DNOTY, Mungo, former DNOTY Iseult as well as Nodpot of the month Valerie and Chairtoy Marvin.

The morning will consist of talks -

1. How to use humour in writing
2. The joy of rewriting
3. Writing is easy
4. Turning negatives into positives

the afternoon with be split into readings given by the guest authors as well as a workshop on motivation.

The conference is open to all Nodpots.

MONTH OF PARSLEY

Because this is the Year of the Nodpots, each month has been assigned a different Nodpot who will be honoured during their month. The first month belongs to PARSLEY, lion and Treasurer extraordinaire. He has been Treasurer of the Nodpots since the very first meeting, way back in July 1997, and he hasn't put a paw wrong since then. With subscriptions to collect, funds to manage and (occasionally) monies to pay out, Parsley handles everything with his usual gentlemanly aplomb. He has embraced the age of technology and runs spreadsheets to keep track of the accounts. He has even been known to email Nodpots for their subscription money! His paw is very firmly on the pulse and his support and devotion to the Nodpots is unfailing in the extreme.

Happy (belated) New Year

It is a new year and a new era for the Nodpots. Last year, Mungo won the Disresponsible Nodpot of the Year but now the race has started again to see who will be DNOTY 2007. Since January 1st, those eligible to receive Nodpot points (aka members of the D.N's) will be able to do so by writing, reading, submitting, publishing and generally all works to advance writing and the D.N's. 2007 is also the Year of the Nodpots (for those who didn't know) running from 1st January 2007 to 27th July 2008 (our 11th anniversary). If you think it is strange that the Year of the Nodpots runs for 19 months, than don't worry - it is disresponsible - and disresponsiblity is what we are all about!

This year I hope to have the website up and running, as well as keep this blog regularly up dated. It is the ONLY OFFICIAL NODPOT blog on the net, so don't let other blogs fool you. If you have any news, questions or stories you would like to tell the Nodpots, please let me know.

Until the next post, you can get more nodpot fixes from the links on the side of the page or from the official Nodpot website (still in construction) and remember to keep checking back here to get more up dates STRAIGHT FROM THE CHAIRTOY'S MOUTH!

Marvin

Chairtoy