The writers
Cath, Pauline,
Dennis, Helene, Terry, Lynn, Pat, Elizabeth
Words of the day
Inhume – to bury
Unctuous – oily
speech
Integrate – bring
together
Watershed – ridge
or crest line
Phantom –
apparition or spectre
Plebiscite –
agreement of the people
Earnest– money
given in token, bargain making
Artificial – copy
of something natural, contrived or affected
Writing from words of the day
The writers
integrated the words of the day in a range of water shed stories - I’m going home,
By the beach, New inventions, Moses and the 10 Commandments, In Canberra, Meeting
for months and Was it possible.
Reading of homework
Six writers read
out their stories - Pat and her bike, One of sixteen, Weight of history,
Architectural horror and heads in buckets, Staying with Aunty Lilly and The
last time.
The exercise
Dennis provided an
excellent exercise with a choice of openings, some singing but no dancing plus
an example of absurdist humour as inspiration. The writers created stories about
-The house, The crash, Everything differently, Not kissing, In the lounge room,
Cheating, I need to get home and You don’t know what happened.
Homework
The other week I
read a book
Facilitator for 16 August
Helene
Christmas in August lunch
12 noon Monday 28
August 2017 Club Jervis Bay Huskisson
