WRITERS GROUP MEETING

19TH OCTOBER 11

ATTENDING.

MANDY BYRNE. WENDY WILLIAMS. GARY HOLMES. TERRY MCLAFFERTY.

DAVE RUDDER.GEOFF BOLTON.

Dave printed the new format for the writers group and handed it out. Mandy has spare copies.

News of the Day.

Wendy went to see Red Dog and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Mandy. Had a full body scan and waiting for results.

Gary. Enjoying having all his sisters and family around him.

Geoff. Nothing major just enjoyed his week.

Terry. Has decided to write a longer piece of writing, loosely based on his fathers life. To be done in prose

Dave  Very proud of his daughters and showed us their swimming achievement .

He needs picking up from hospital if it is the weekend after his hip operation next week..

Word of the Day

Geoff.   Picayune ...small. petty, mean, trivial

Garry. Readability meaning something very worth while to read.

Mandy. Solecism when someone grammatically uses a word making the sentence sound slightly absurd often when foreigners do it unintentionally.

Wendy. Indefatigable. Untiring Industrious or persistent.

Dave  Sinistral...of the left hand.

Terry. Read an article on words. Very interesting and funny.

We then did a quick write on the words above.

Wendy started us off and did hers in rhyming form.

Mandy and Gary stuck to a quick write.

Geoff tried to include the words in a sports write.

Terry. He did a funny poem well done and good.

Dave is just as clever and did it in poem form.

HOMEWORK.

Wendy did a poem called Why. She wanted to be a super model but was a foot too short. A funny poem.

Mandy wrote a short story called One of Their own. A funny tale.

Wendy Dave and Mandy were only the ones who did their homework. Our Halos shine.

Dave read out his in a poem we all enjoyed his usual funny self.

Stopped for afternoon tea and a natter.

Book Author Discussion.

Geoff.  Raymond Carver he spoke about the style of his writing. Mainly short stories. The film Jindabyne was based on his story So Much Water. American writer. He died two years ago at 45.

Peter Carey. Terry enjoys the way he does his characters and the style he presents them in his novels.

Gary. Jeffery Archer. All about the Masonic Lodge and how they operate. He found it brought back lots of memories of his childhood and his Nan going to the women's Eastern Star Order.

Mandy is enjoying Wilbur Smith. She enjoyed the history and the way he makes you feel like the characters he portrays. Adventure stories with a difference.

We talked about several other authors.

Wendy talked about the Lovely Bones. by Alice Sebold. She told us about the author.

Dave, Spoke about Isabel Allende  a Spanish writer, her books have been translated into many languages. Writes in a very poetic way and Dave enjoys it. He read a passage of her book aloud.

Members On Going Works.

Geoff read some of his work in progress. Based in Japan it is really interesting as Geoff has lived in Japan and can describe the country and people in a believable way.

Mandy read from her current novel War on Words. A story loosely based on her mothers life. Mainly just ideas and some events.

Quick Write On the Carbon Tax. We all had ideas and Wendy decided Shane Warne was a much better subject than the Carbon Tax. Some did it in rhyme.

Homework.

Wendy set the homework 'What If" this can cover anyt topic.

Please note this week the men outweighed the women by two to one. Wendy and Mandy handled the situation with their usual panache.