Christmas lunch 12 December 2013

Cath, Jo, Melissa, Geoff, David C, Trish, Helene, Terry, Margaret, David R and Wendy at DDs

Meeting notice 18 December 2013

 

 Please bring a plate of goodies to share for our Christmas meeting on 18 December 2013

 

Also bring ideas for a Christmas writing exercises to share

 

Sadly there will be no meetings on Wednesday 25 December or 1 January.

 

See you back on 8 January with some new writing ideas for 2014

 

 

 

 

 

 

Record of meeting 11 December 2013

 Speedy Get well wishes to David R from the group.

 

Words of the day

 Embarrassed = feeling self conscious or ashamed

Vagary = an unexpected change

Impecunious = poor or a broke person

Mews = stables converted to housing

Simian = ape like

Acrimony = sharpness of temper, caustic words

Astute = cunning, crafty

Dowager = a widow of property or title from her husband or a dignified older woman

Stories from the words of the day

We produced a great range of interesting stories in 10 Minutes - Managing the estate, I used to live in Sydney, A monkeys uncle, Swinging from the trees, The business card, The Dowager’s lover, The gambler and Her own son.

 

Reading of homework

Great homework stories on neighbours on the topics of In my cul-de-sac; Nosey neighbour in a southern voice from Melissa; Eves dropping on the neighbours; Mitch’s Mow; Neighbours in Chiang Dao; Stuffing up next door; and Charlie’s mother.

 

Reading and discussion

Reading of a - Three word story - Follows the alphabet - from David C.

We discussed the email from Diana M Thomas Community Information Directory Librarian Shoalhaven City Council on behalf of the Shoalhaven Writers’ Festival planning team about a proposed Writers Festival in 2014. Helene will prepare a draft reply for comment from the group.

 

Exercise

From Melissa – the action of a sentence exercise - two examples

Dinosaurs (noun) marinate (verb) in the earth. 

The fiddles (noun) boiled (verb) the air with their music.

We each created lists of 10 nouns, and then listed 15 verbs describing an occupation. From this we created

surprising sentences. We hope to be motivated to think of different ways to combine verbs and nouns.

Christmas lunch

Don't forget Christmas lunch 12 noon, 12 December, DDs

 

Homework

A Christmas theme (think about combining those nouns and verbs in unusual ways)