09 November 2016

Record of meeting 9 November 2016


The writers

Wendy, Terry, Juan, Cathy, Pauline, Helene and Diane

New date for Christmas lunch Tuesday 6 December 2016

The St Georges Basin Country Club 12 noon

Words of the day

Alliteration – words following each other starting with the same letter

Abjectly – hopeless resigned

Amorphous – without fixed shape or form

Astronomical – large or relating to astronomy

Afoot - happening

Aphorism – short clever saying expressing a general truth


Stories from words of the day

The writers grabbed the word of the day and manipulated them into awesome stories and poems as follows:  Helene – The twins, Cath – A plot, Terry – Hope I never see you, Pauline – Ideas and eccentricities, Juan – The house and Wendy The Albino.


Reading of homework

Three admirable writers read out the following homework: Helene – An alien in a strange land, Juan – Bob was different and Pauline – Agatha and James.


Exercise

The writers created short stories and poems starting each word with letters from the alphabet in order.  Stories started with All bothersome children, All babies cry, Always, A blue cramp, Agile boy child and Any……


Homework

The letter B and Whatever will be will be












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