09 August 2017

Record of meeting 9 August 2017



The writers

Cath, Pauline, Dennis, Helene, Terry, Lynn, Pat, Elizabeth

Words of the day

Inhume – to bury

Unctuous – oily speech

Integrate – bring together

Watershed – ridge or crest line

Phantom – apparition or spectre

Plebiscite – agreement of the people

Earnest– money given in token, bargain making

Artificial – copy of something natural, contrived or affected

Writing from words of the day

The writers integrated the words of the day in a range of water shed stories - I’m going home, By the beach, New inventions, Moses and the 10 Commandments, In Canberra, Meeting for months and Was it possible.

Reading of homework

Six writers read out their stories - Pat and her bike, One of sixteen, Weight of history, Architectural horror and heads in buckets, Staying with Aunty Lilly and The last time.

The exercise
Dennis provided an excellent exercise with a choice of openings, some singing but no dancing plus an example of absurdist humour as inspiration. The writers created stories about -The house, The crash, Everything differently, Not kissing, In the lounge room, Cheating, I need to get home and You don’t know what happened.

Homework
The other week I read a book

Facilitator for 16 August

Helene

Christmas in August lunch

12 noon Monday 28 August 2017 Club Jervis Bay Huskisson


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