Record of meeting 27 July 2016

The writers

Terry, Juan, Roslyn, Lynne, Pauline, Kris, Cath, David C, Wendy and Helene,

The words of the day

Cuff – turn up of sleeve

Nephologist – study of cloudsMaudlin- tearful, sentimental

Extra curricular – outside regular course of study

Barbarea – perennial herb winter cress

Chromosome - a thread-like structure of nucleic acids and protein found in the nucleus of most living cells, carrying genetic information in the form of genes.

Dallying – wasting time

Crepuscular – resembling twilight, dim or indistinct

In extremis – on the point of death

Traduce – to slander

Writing from words of the day

The enthusiastic group of writers did not dally and created a great range of eclectic stories and poems - Helene - In the garden, Wendy - Stop it, Terry - Sitting on the seashore, Juan – What is freedom?  Roslyn – water is important, Lyn – on a silver plate, Pauline – Roger Rabbit, Kris – Results matter, Cath – A Shiver and David – On his death bed.

Reading of homework

Eight enthusiastic writers read of their homework as follows - David – The affair, Helene – Repeating myself, Cath – Jubilation, Kris – The special gift, Pauline – Not a movie star, Lynn – The distraction, Roslyn – The bridge in Monet’s garden, Terry – I didn’t do it and brilliant poem and Wendy On a dating website.

Young writer’s award

Juan spoke about the competition for he is running for Shoalhaven high school students. The writers have agreed to assist in the judging of the entries.

Word or picture exercise

From a mysterious collection each writer selected a word or picture and used their vivid imagination to write the following stories

Terry – Challenge, Wendy – Performance, Helene – Passion, David – Sunday Rose, Cath – Dollars, Pauline – Combine for police, Lynn – unique, Roslyn – Autumn; and Juan – Light on our life.

Numberplate exercise AAJ 90 37

We used the first three letters of the number plate AAJ to start our story or poem and included the numbers 90 37 in the story.

Juan – Adam and Eve, Roslyn – New identity and new location, Lynn – An aardvark, Pauline – Angela comes to Australia, Cath – Invitations, David – Australian Association of Jag owners, Helene – the rifle, Wendy – Adam’s apples jut out and Terry After Alan jumped off the cliff.

 Homework due 3 August 2017

Create a likeable rouge character.