15 July 2015

Record of meeting 15 July 2015


The writers


Terry, Clare, Cathy, Helene, Leonie, David C

The words of the day

Livid = black and blue, furiously angry

Defalcate = to embezzle

Infra dig = unbecoming, demeaning

Hathos = pleasure of hating someone

Dross = impurity, waste matter

Rusticate = to expel temporarily from a college or send to the country


Writing from words of the day

We used our words of the day to create stories on the topics - Enjoyment, Retiring, Mean minded Treasurer, The defendant, Living in Queensland and Another way to infuriate.

Reading of homework

Five writers read out serious and funny homework stories - The influence of labels, Chilly morning coffee, The box syndrome, Living in a ticky tacky box and Working for the project. David C also read two old homework stories called Blow flies and Policing at its best.

Exercise 1- When I asked

Choose two nouns, two verbs, two adjectives and two names and write a story using all eight words starting with “When I asked”.
  
For this exercise the writers produced the following stories - His friend had gone mad, He didn’t know, Busy doing nothing, Such a mess, Freshly washed hair and What book?

Exercise 2 -The scream was loud

We defined the word Indaba and wrote a story starting with "The scream was loud"

We produced some interesting definitions from bar to goddess and created stories about - Shrill noise, The smell of brewed hops, The lion, The kitchen goddess, Possessed by a diva and The curse.


The homework  


Three wishes