The first day of the Hewitt Festival was nice. I use “nice” as a blanket to best describe everything. The presentation by Lord Steel, felt mostly like a propaganda moment to promote him as an official. The Ian Sanderson reading was rather amazing: loose in the term of “reading” but his presentation was wonderful and his poems were very inspiring. He has been working on a series of books that will take place in every historic county in England, focusing on a travel writer who will have to solve various crimes and murders as he writes on each county. Sanderson draws from his childhood for his writing. His recent book “Murder in Devonshire” takes items from his holidays in his youth around the area. Lastly, the workshop I am taking, scriptwriting, has been mostly the same as what I’ve done for my play this month. We started with character building, and as usual in a timed, forced-writing environment I didn’t get much from the creative juices.