Record of meeting 21 March 2018

The writers  - Jo, Helene, Pauline, Terry, Trevor E

Shoalhaven Writers Festival 

Terry reported that our group will present a workshop at the festival on Saturday 4 August 2018. The workshop will cover how we conduct our group meetings. It is expected that Frank Moorhouse AM, the writer who was born in Nowra will attend the festival. More details in later blogs.

The words of the day

Ergophobia – fear of work

Lupine- pertaining to a wolf

Focus – the centre of interest or activity

Immediate – without delay, instant, nearest

Memoir – based on personal experience of the writer

Indian summer – warm weather occurring in autumn, a period of happiness late in life

Writing from words of the day

Without ergophobia the five writers focused on the words to create the immediate stories of - Happy hours, These members, Coin collecting, Far too much rest and Wall Street.

Reading of homework

Four writers read out their homework on the subjects - Unsatisfactory darling (in a Russian Accent), From my childhood, Freedom and secrets & Walking down the street.

Exercise – From out of the blue

The writers chose an action, a person, item, texture, emotion and a piece of furniture to write a story starting "From out of the blue". The stories were about - The euphoric feeling of falling asleep, Watch and cry, Terry’s ear has turned blue, A chair on a knee and tree branches.

Exercise – write a story using words of one syllable

The writers wrote stories about a bull using words of one syllable, the stories were about - Foam in his mouth, Too much Guinness, Mad as hell, Dip at the beach and Pain.

Exercise – she adjusted his bow tie

The writers created stories on the topics - That was too good, After the burglary, You are a vamp and Of course I want to go.

Homework

Exercise 3 from “A novel in a year”.

Write a simple and straight forward account of an

accident in your life without embellishments or analysis.