06 September 2017

Record of meeting 6 September 2017



To start, our excellent facilitator Dennis provided us with the quote

“We saw that life did not narrate, but made impressions on our brains.

We, in turn, if we wished to produce on you an effect of life, must not narrate but render impressions.”

Ford Madox Ford – In a memoir regarding his collaboration with Joseph Conrad

The writers

Helene, Dennis, Juan, Pauline, Jenni, Elizabeth

Phrases and words of the day

In the heat of the night

I saw the face and then

Sensational in the press

I couldn’t find the words

Frustration

Writing from words of the day

The writers were inspired by the phrases and words and wrote about - I’m sorry but time flies, my heart was full, air conditioners were banned, Adonis, Which grapes and what the doctor said.
Adonis

Reading of homework

The writers read and told stories about Travel to a birthday party, My baby wasn’t breathing, The sheep in the plane, Changing the past, The drug bag and Momentous moments.  

Exercise – Update a classic story 


The writers created stories about Natural foods and nature (Mary Poppins), On Phillip Island (from The Great Gatsby), A student journalist meets a robot (pure creativity), Without our knowledge (school bullies), Macy in stiletto heels (Mary Poppins) and Left in the gutter (Richard 111). 

Homework

I’ve never met a person who was wrong

Facilitator for next week

Pat