Record of meeting 3 September 2014

 

News

David C is having an angiogram next week. Di’s van has broken down. Lyn has been cleaning out her mother’s house. Jo has had her three sons staying and sharing her car. Terry found the word ruly (as opposed to unruly) and discussed fat loss and global warming from the Catalyst program on ABC 1. Geoff went to the Sydney symphony by train and assured us seniors paper tickets are still available. Pauline is a disappointed woman. Helene is waiting for more warm weather and enjoyed the Publishing workshop in Nowra. David R spent some time in Canberra, went to the NGA and went walking. Cath sprayed for bindii eye weeds. Elizabeth met her newest great grand daughter.

 

Words of the day

Convoluted = complicated

Spifflicated = to destroy

Faction = a mixture of fact and fiction

Redeem = to make better

Imbroglio = an extremely confused and complicated situation

Digest = to absorb

Absolute = free from limitations

Etude = short composition or study

Brevity = short, a fewness of words

Cumbrous = complicated, difficult, unwieldy

Declaim = speak loudly or verbally or attack someone

 

Writing from words of the day

We created the following fabulous stories from words of the day

 

Lyn = a mixture

Jo = the marriage

Terry = a slanging fight

Geoff = Julia and Kevin

Pauline = Family history

Helene = The story

David R = half a sausage

Cath = adjourn to the pub

Elizabeth = Later

David C = Clive and Tony

Di = food and music

 

Reading of homework

 

Most homework was the final part of our ongoing stories, others wrote about postcards

Helene – Finding “me time”

David R – the story of Lucy and Fred

Cath – A dangerous visit to the circus

Elizabeth – Thank you for the postcard

David C – The rescue

Lyn – Dusty Rose

Jo – love and terror in a holiday cabin

Terry – the skull

Pauline – A postcard from Paris

Garry – the end of madness

 

Exercise

David C read his story “Heart of the matter” on the topic "here and now" published on ABC Open.

Terry downloaded some of Michael Robotham's writing for research and found it was  easy to read and written in the first person.

Helene and David R shared information from the "Lets get published workshop" in Nowra on 2 September 2014 conducted by Ms Blaise van Hecke from Busybird Publishing. Helene will email a summary of information collected at the workshop to email address she has. Please send your email address to helene.gaul6@bigpond.com if you think she doesn't have your email address.

 

Anthology 2014

Based on the information from Busybird Publishing, David R suggested we consider producing an Anthology for the group with a total 1,000 words per members who want to contribute. Please think about your contribution and we will discuss at our next meeting. Also prepare a draft of a short bio to go with your contribution to the Anthology. Imagine updated versions of this will appear one day in your published books.  Please email Helene if you have any questions about preparing your bio.

 

Homework the first of three parts

Write a 500 word introduction to a new story using two characters. The second part of the story is to be written by another member as the following week’s homework. (This is an upgrade of the progressive writes we have written as exercises.)