15 March 2017

Record of meeting 15 March 2017


The writers

Terry, Lynn, Trevor, Helene, Pauline, Amanda, Elizabeth, Diane

Words of the day

Irrational – not reasonable

Neophyte – beginner or novice

Timbre – quality of the sound

Prospopagnosia - face blindness

Nonsensical – doesn’t make sense

Quasar – an energetic celestial object

Kaolin – fine white clay to make porcelain

Predictable – unsurprising, expected, banal

Writing from words of the day

Trevor – The witness,  Lynn – Into the dam, Helene – Blurred vision,  Elizabeth – A sunset, Amanda – A telescope,  Terry – Have a go, Diane – The alien being and Pauline – Too bad.

Reading of homework

Helene – Larry the Laptop, Lynn – Invisibility, Trevor – Eves drop on pollies, Pauline – The electric jug, Diane – A fly on the wall, Terry – Musings of a chair – very entertaining and Amanda read Juan’s homework – The humble broom.

Reading


Amanda read her lovely story – My friendly neighbourhood possum


Exercise

The writers created stories on the theme of evil; Elizabeth – Two small children, Helene - Parents produce evil, Lynn – Evil lives, Trevor - The Anita Cobby case, Diane – What is evil, Terry – Pools of blood and Amanda - The Amy Boots man.

Homework

Write approximately 500 words the beginning of a story finishing with a cliff hanger. We hope to use this as the start of the longer story.















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