Present: Cath, Wendy, Helene, Robyn, Jo, Vala
Brags: Robyn bought a new computer programme, excellent tool, provides all needs for complete family searches.
Cathy: Her computer is working now.
Helene: Had a flu shot.
Mandy: The triplets are doing well.
Word of the Day
Cathy: Ephemeral: ghostly, short-lived
Helene: Opague: see through, unintelligent.
Wendy:: Scuttle: run awkardly, coal holders
Mandy: Uxorious: relating to devotion to one's wife, subservient to one's wife.
Uxoricide: to kill one's own wife
Robyn: Thwart: to repel or subdue an enemy
Homework:
Mandy began the homework - 'somehow, you get a CD, and what you do with it' - Mandy's was about a woman caught in a car accident in a deserted place - CD was in the glovebox, was about dogs, and she was rescued by the CD and her dog.
Wendy: Poem about a DVD found by a daughter who sees her mother at a party doing everything that her mother has told her not to do.
Helene: Went on a short trip and found a CD. There was cat poo, and she picked it up in a piece of newspaper, and didn't see the ad. offering a very large reward for the return of the CD.
Cathy: Finders Keepers. Leslie on a bus. Aged. Finds CD. Plays it and it contains a terrorist warning! Should she ring Police? They come. Is it true or is Leslie a fruit loop?
Robyn: Runs out of petrol, bad day, everythings going wrong. Finds a CD. Wedding music on the label. Gets petrol, resumes trip to family, who are gathered for wedding tomorrow, when bride discovers she has forgotten to bring music, and so Robyn's heroine provides it.
Jo: An old man on a train finds a CD. He is going to suicide. Finds a CD that saves his life. It is called ITS TIME and no one knows ever, what was on the CD, but it animates the old man.
Exercise:
Everyone was given a small paper which was instructions: to write on, your prayer, hope, vision, story, promise, message, song, regret, desire etc. Given by Cathy and was treated in various ways by all.
Much interesting talk about War in all its guises, our perception of the fact of war.
Mandy continued on with some of the Romance Writing Course. Discussion on Point of View, and as everyone became interested, we learned how to distinguish flaws in so-called Point of View and how to apply it to our own work, a valuable discussion.
Next week's homework is "My most prized possession is .... '
