WEBSITE UPGRADES

The 'Magic Star of Dramatic Writing' section has been re-formatted
to make it more 'handheld-friendly', as has the 'Story Dynamics'
section (which is a clear a candidate for further amplification).

Modifications to other sections proceed apace.

MESSAGES

The Messages feature has now been opened up to non-members to
encourage producers, contest organizers, and the like to post
their opportunities for Group members.

Moderating the Group properly should limit any difficulties.

CALENDAR

The Calendar feature might be used to post contest deadlines,
writing conferences, workshops and classes, film festivals, etc. It
is open for all Group members to post their events and activities.

Other Yahoo! Calendars can easily be 'synched' to this one, and
Yahoo! offers 'synching' utilities for other formats, such as MS
Outlook and Palm OS. You may want to check those out for your
personal life, if not for supporting your writing activities.

CHAT

A weekly hour-long Chat has been scheduled for noon U.S. Eastern Standard
Time. This should work well enough for the U.S. West Coast, Canada,
the British Isles--but apparently not so well for those 'Down Under'
(open to suggestions).

The website author will make every effort to be in attendance each
week, but members can get it going no matter.

The purpose of this Chat will be to discuss any matter raised by
Group members, as relates to the Empire Screenwriting Resource.