Feb 23rd Feb 11

Feb 23rd Feb 11

Attending  Jo Ball. Geoff Boulton. Terry McClaffetty. Dave Rudder. Wendy Williams. Cath Rose. Mandy Bynre. Dave Cargill.

Brag of the Week.

Geoff. Had a letter printed in the newspaper re: the closure of Bookstores. What will happen to book shops?  times are a changing.

Terry. His wife who is adopted is going to met her half brothers for the first time soon.

Very excited about finding family.

 Mandy Zeek her dog fell off a cliff chasing rabbits and survived without injuries.

Jo had on going problems getting an appointment for an edoscopy they keep putting her back.

Word of the Day.

Geoff Picaresque . A story about  adventures of a hero  fictional. Also can mean roaming around.

Terry. Risible. Comic or funny laughable.

Dave. Inexorable. Impossible to stop or prevent. Nothing could be done to stop something happening.

 Wendy. Rhetoric. The art of speaking or writing effectible

Cath. Reconcile. Restore friendship after a quarrel  You can bring things to balance when you reconcile.To induce someone to accept a matter they are against.

Antediluvian. Of time before Noah's ark. Completely out of Date.

Dave C. Liquefaction What often happens when an earth quake happens mixing water and dirty and forces it to the surface. To meld.

Jo. Hippocampus. A part of the brian also the name of several small fishes as it looks like a horse.

Terry talked about the phase Dead as a door nail. Nothing can be deader than a door nail for some reason.

He also spoke of Blackmail look it up on the World wide Web very interesting.

When you use ellipses the three dots are often refused by editors preferring a dash.

It can also be an oval shape.

Homework.

Geoff. Restraint. A short story on the theme of the homework Macabre or Murder..

He read only part of a short story we all are waiting for the next instalment. Well done Geoff.

Terry did not do his homework. Well!!!

David Rudder. More Macabre Moments. Done in poetry form. Very good and funny.

Wendy. Completely her own style. I am Scared.  Very well done as usual.

Cath. Caught. A fishing trip that deals in drugs.

Dave Cargill. Continues his novel about a detective and his work. We are all enjoying the tales.

Mandy wrote the beginning of a murder story about a limbless corpse.

Jo. She came to Him. A murder story.

Jo also wrote a poem. To be a Fish out of Water. A funny poem about a fish.

Exercise. Terry presented several different hooks in short stories. How important it is to hook your reader in the first paragraph.

The exercise  was to do with Comma's. How to use them and where to put them we all enjoyed knowing where we should have put the comma.

Homework. Write a story from Cinderella's Step mothers point of view.

  

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