Record of meeting 10 June 2015

The writers

Wendy, Terry, Cath, Lynn, Clare, Helene, Leonie, David C, Geoff, Elizabeth

The words of the day

Slew = turn or swing around on an axis and kill

Chigga = an uncultured person

Mesmerise = capture the complete attention of someone

Extemporize = improvise, adlib

Nebulous = indistinct

Acumen = sharp or quick thinking

Quasi-maliciously = deliberately malicious legal term

Beguile = to deceive by guile, cheat or mislead, to charm

Haggle = to cut into small pieces or difficult in bargaining

Impecunious = little or no money

The stories from words of the day

Some great beguiling story on the topics - No mercy for Big John; The deal in his favour; The rally car driver; The discovery; The handsome face; A toothless smile; Haggle with the Pope; Joe’s grim ideas; Sad to see; and Trying to trick.

The reading of Homework

Seven diligent writers read great homework stories - Time to ski; Body parts – a funny poem; The purpose of our being – a poem; One dark winter’s night; They met on the Internet; Fate intervened and The car accident.

We are/have been reading

Lynn is enjoying hearing “The death of a stock man” written by Hugh Anderson and is also reading work by Dorothy Wimple. Terry recommends reading “Being there” by Jerzy Kosinski. Helene is reading and enjoying “The goldfinch” winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize by Donna Tartt.

Exercise 1 - The stain will not come out

On the topic of stains we wrote a great array of stories and poems including - We’ve got things to discuss: The intruder: Tonight was the night: It wasn’t long: My white dress and mangos: The painting: Brand new carpet: Out dam spot and His mother is overprotective.

Exercise 2 – The inside of an egg

The sloppy topic of inside an egg produced the eggcentic stories of Hollow and slimy, I came first, Empty nest egg, My room, Only pale blue light, My egg is packed ready to go, Yellow white and Cooked chook.

Homework

Today marks the anniversary of two people …………..