Our first meeting for 2018 held at the
relaxing and beautiful Vincentia Golf Club was a success
The writers
Terry, Helene, Pat,
Pauline, Cath, Juan and welcome back Jo
The words of the day
Exacerbate –
intensify or worsen
Hyperbole -
obvious exaggeration
Dissolve – melt, to
break up, put an end to
Analects –
collection of literary fragments
Quota - limited or
fixed number of things
Hypodermic –
introduction of medical treatment under the skin
Writing from words of the day
An excellent start
to the year with writing on the topics of Relief, Mistaken impressions, Moving
on, A tie stained with sauce, Difficult and Truth serum.
Reading of homework topic Christmas
Four writers read
homework about Christmas past, Sticky rice and Milo, Shiver, shake and pixilate
and Is it me?
How not to get published – Claire Gillman
Pat borrowed the
above book from the Nowra Library. It contains information about the common mistakes made in manuscripts by novice writers.
We had a
discussion on publishing and related issues. Juan brought a copy of the
publication he arranged “Shoalhaven Young Writers Award 2016 - An Anthology”
and talked about his experiences in publishing the Anthology.
Exercise – Bald ballerina
The writers
developed a list of ten words associated with the word Bald. We then selected six
of those words to write a story about a ballerina starting with “I was
backstage”
The writer’s pirouetted
around the ballerina exercise and wrote on the topics - Freedom, Cookamidgera,
Legs were my passion, Glimpsing Pavlova, Uncle Fester, Family story and Hard to
watch.
Homework
Possessed by an
idea to write or you have written something that comes to life.
