Record of meeting 23 May 2018

The writers

Trevor, Helene, Pat, Pauline, Terry and Jo

See change

Two day poetry hub at Husky Public School 9 and 10 June. See more information on the See change website.

Shoalhaven readers and writers festival Sat 4 August 2018
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Discussion of financial matters

Decision to be made before the end of the financial year

The words of the day             

Esoteric – for select few

Valedictory – a farewell speech

Lousy – full of lice, very poor or bad

Graffiti – write or draw graffiti on something

Famulus – an assistant especially for a magician or scholar

Manslaughter – the crime of killing a human being without malice aforethought

Writing from words of the day

The writers wrote about - A scream, A collector, Insulting the audience, The circus down south, Clean up in Windsor and Have a say.

Reading of homework

The writers read out a diverse range of well constructed stories - A safe haven, Mother and child, The house who wanted to dance, Who’d be a hypocrite, My visit to Istanbul and When I was 17.

Exercise – Four meet in a bar

The four remaining writers created stories on the topics - Class options, At the Cooee bar, I’m tired and Frizz of excitement

Homework

Complete exercise 9 from page 104 - you could use this as your synopsis to send to publishers. For others write a story from the perspective of an inanimate object.

The Dancing House, or Fred and Ginger, is the nickname given to the Nationale-Nederlanden building in Prague, Czech Republic. It was designed by the Croatian-Czech architect Vlado Milunić in cooperation with Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry on a vacant riverfront plot. The building was designed completed in 1996.