07 November 2018

Record of meeting 7 November 2018

The writers

Jenny, Helene, Trevor, Terry


The words of the day

Timorous – fearful

Meandering – following a wandering course

Ossature – a skeleton or underlying framework

Eclectic – from a broad and diverse range of sources

Random – made, done or happening without method

Curry favour – ingratiate oneself through obsequious behaviour

Martyrdom – display of pretended exaggerated suffering to obtain sympathy


Writing from words of the day

The writers did not meander and were not timid when they wrote about -

The attack, The same parents, For dummies and The new tourist guide.


Reading of homework

The writers read out homework about - It’s just a phase, Show and tell, She couldn’t see his number, Fran told me to, and I want to be an Uber driver.


Exercise – A cockroach who is afraid of the dark

The writers scurried around like cockroaches in the Golf club and wrote about the runt of the litter, She tried to squash me in the corner, Big and strong and Craig Roach and the swarm of cockroaches.


Homework

Queen