Present
Leonie, Elizabeth,
Garry , David R, Helene, Wendy, Cath,
Terry, Jo and Lynne
Cath had a message
from Optus and strange phone conversation, Wendy had x-rays she doesn’t have
sciatica but arthritis and now has the right treatment & is going to apple
day at Talong, Helene went to Tarago, David R is enjoying the weather, swimming
and walking, Garry has sold his car
and now has the money, Elizabeth went walking in her slippers, Leonie has built
a kind of step, Jo has written 50,000 words.
Idiolect – jargon,
slang
Aberrant –
diverging from normal type, deviant, uncharacteristic
Maunder – to talk
incoherently or move aimlessly
Caudal – having a
tail
Phantasmagoria –
illusions, deception
Fixation – stability
and exaggerated attachment
Mojo – magic,
charm
Ebullient – full
of enthusiasm
Nescience –
lacking knowledge
We used the words
of the day to produce a range of strange stories including The cat at the council meeting, The baker and the cat, Non rhyming poetry, On the stage, The pain
in my butt, Cats, An idiot who grew a tail a great poem by David R, The
archaeologist, Awful.
Maz and Mustafa –
the next chapter of Distant Lands; Fun at the surgery – a funny poem; Fatla - I
want to break free; Tomorrow; His own company; Her courtroom image; The flying
jumbo; Maz and Distant Lands; Coco the entertainer.
Discussions and
reading
David R – read his
poem called Mirage
Terry – the circus
– a funny poem based on fact
Exercise
We each listed
four or five aspects for a character and passed it on to the next person who
wrote a story about the character. The stories were Bright eyed Jenny, Peace
would reign, Stay, Make me an egg sandwich, Janette had a runny nose, Home
comfort, The blind man, The food lover, Fred at the pool, The bottle blonde.
Homework
The fence
