Record of meeting 22 April 2015

Present

Wendy, Cath Terry, David C, Helene, Geoff, Elizabeth, David C, Leonie, Pauline, Lynn

 

Words of the day

Skewiff = out of place

Gauche = insensitive, awkward, immature

Indiscriminate = making no distinction

Skedaddle = take off

Duende = power of art to deeply move a person, goblin, charm

Kaleidoscope = tube which colours patterns are reflected beautiful form

Circumscribe = to limit or restrict

Brusque = abrupt

Cull = reduce the quantity

Mistrial = trivial

Picador = horseman in a bull fight

 

Stories from words of the day

Geoff - leadership, courage and traffic on the Hume Highway

Elizabeth - out of place

David C - Sobering fiction

Leonie - Made no sense

Pauline - Far from ……

Lynn – Around the gallery

Terry – Expecting many ideas

Cath – The bulls

Wendy – Heading this way

Helene – The washing machine

David R – I picked a door

 

Reading of homework

Terry – The party

Helene – I have it

David R – Silver fish in the morning sun

Elizabeth – Help with a broken mooring

David C – times they are a changing

Leonie – not so fleeting

Lynn – connection with perfection

Garry – the doctor and the cleaner

 

Exercise – describe a hot summer day

Terry talked us through an exercise to paint a word picture of a hot summer day using the five senses - sight, smell, sound, touch & taste.

Terry – Ice cream van, Green Sleeves, hats, sand, salty water, spotter plane

Cath – Dry leaves, creaking of timber, smell of chlorine

Helene – sunscreen, burning metal, shade, cool water, birds, leaves waving

Geoff – cool shade, chilled liquid satisfying thirst

Elizabeth – hot iron gate, late summer storm, cattle in the shade, cool water on my chest, cooling breeze

David C – short shorts, brake released, wind in the hair, salt, hot dog & mustard

Pauline – no air con, roof racks, food cooked on an open fire, only 900 miles to go, packed station wagon

Lynn – wavy lines of heat, perspiration, mirage, taste of summer, surfboard wax, Beach Boys songs, the perfect wave

 

Homework

A most embarrassing moment
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Record of meeting 15 April 2015

The players

Wendy, David R, Helene, David C, Lyn, Geoff, Leonie, Pauline, Elizabeth

Words of the day

Engross = enthralled or be captured by

Copious = plentiful

Persiflage = frivolous talk

Esculent = good food

Stumblebum = inept, clumsy, awkward person

Proclivity = habitual

Sonata = piece of music in several movements for one instrument with or without piano

Palaver = idle talk, time wasting fuss

Stories from words of the day

We created stories on the topics The string quartet, I dream of a piano at home, I couldn’t play, Spilled soup, The Itty bitty holiday story, No frivolous stumblebums here, Visitors interrupt homework, Conversation and food, and the audience.

Reading of homework

Only a few stories today but they were well written - Good vibrations, Bad taste in women, The devious wife, Tangled sheets, Drama in the library and the Book deal.

Exercises

1. We used the phrase “She hurried down the pathway through the gate” to create stories of rainy weather, storms, the vista of daffodils under blue sky, thunder before rain, an umbrella too small, gates to hell in a media circus, black cockatoos squawking and the sound of a heartbeat.

2. We wrote stories and poems on the emotion “Shame” and I remember that hairstyle and wrote about -Telling the truth, A fly blown hairstyle, The blue organza dress, No unseemly conduct here, A dishonest teacher, Bullying and Sorry old man – a funny poem from Wendy.

Homework

Satisfaction

MEETING OF THE 8TH APRIL 2015

Jervis Bay Tourism

“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
― Anton Chekhov

Present    -  Terry, Geoff, Elizabeth, Wendy, Pauline and Lynn

Reminder   Please contact Wendy to place your order for the luncheon at the Pelican 21/4

Words of the day

Moribund - point of death

Circumspect - cautious

Endemic - to a particular group

Footfall - local traffic

Knell - death ring

Leonine - lion like

Reminder from Geoff

Writing Competitions from Shoalhaven and Newcastle

http://www.writingwa.org/articles/shoalhaven-literary-award-2015

http://www.hunterwriterscentre.org/

Homework from last week

Stories inspired by the photo of the keys produced varied and interesting narratives.   

First exercise for the day – Choose a cliché and write an argument against it.

Select from clichés such as ‘What goes around comes around’, ‘All good things come to those who wait’ ‘Revenge is a dish best served cold’ or ‘There is no such thing as a free lunch’. 

Essay evolved that explored the heated and wasted emotion of revenge, the need to seize the moment and that the lack of money is the root of all evil.

Second exercise for the day – list 5 things you don’t like to touch. Then write 5 adjectives for each item that will describe either the object of loathing or how you feel about it.  Some surprising phobias of bodily wastes, boils and feet (to name a few) resulted in apt descriptions from this brain teaser.

                                                  

Homework for next week

Begin your story with or be inspired by, the sentence – He looked at his phone, he turned pale and quickly left the room.  She watched him and smiled…