The writers
Terry, Helene, Jo,
Pat, Cath
The words of the day
Fallow –
uncultivated, left to restSimper – smile in an unexpected way
Furlough – to grant leave of absence
Jess – a short
strap around the leg of a hawk
Quirky – peculiar
or unexpected traits or aspects
Writing from words of the day
The writers did
not simper as they wrote quirky stories about - Liz and Jess, Worst aspect of
his job, Two men shared a horse, A cabin by the lake and A waste of a day.
Reading of homework
The five writers
read out stories on the topics - Broken Christmas memories, Testing testing,
The fungus, Writing group and Obsession with change.
Scrabble 12.30 to 4 pm Thursday Country Club
Exercise from “A novel in a year’ Louise
Doughty
We followed
Exercise 1 to complete the sentence “The day after my eight birthday, my father
told me” and the writers delved back into their memories to write about –
Competition, I
wasn’t really eight, I stood in front of the mirror, We moved house and Sent
away to school.
Homework
Write down in
plain English why you want to write a novel (not why you want to be a writer);
“I want to write a novel because ……”
