ALBATROSS SCREENWRITER QUORUM DISSOLVED

On Friday, April 21, 2006, I deleted the above screenwriting quorum. I'd started it during October 2005 when I started a screenwriting course.

I participate in a number of fiction groups, but hadn't found a screenwriter group I liked, so I tried to form my own.

Brilliant, yes. Simple...

Not counting myself, there was a peak of 16 members. I had hopes and plans to expand membership and even start in-group workshops.

Unfortunately, it wasn't to be.

Posting was sporadic at best, potential members blew me off and/or disqualified themselves, and my topic strings ended up talking to themselves.

This group was actually my second. The first group, The Quorum, was formed from among three people I met in a fiction group, who said they wanted to spend time participating in a screenwriting group.

That was only what they said.

They made the Albatross Quorum seem kickin' by comparison. My first group lasted only a month or so.

After some consideration and a small chat with a fiction acquaintance, who kindly joined without being invited, I issued a deletion notice just three days earlier to the Albatross Quorum.

Only one person responded, expressing his regrets at the group's passing.

In retrospect, I can't say I'm surprised.

In my final missive to the Albatross Quorum, I wrote something along the lines of:

subj: The Final Goodbye

The Albatross Quorum goes into the night the way it did through life.

Quietly.

No rage, rage against the dying of the light.

'Tis a pity.

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:-(

Nichevo. Russian term. Loosely translated as "Can't be helped," I believe.

Where one door closes, another opens. Can't wait to see what comes next.

Now I must do my latest screenwriting assignment, complete my current script rewrite, then get back to fiction and make it into a pro small fiction market whether it wants to admit me or not.