17 January 2018

Record of meeting 17 January 2018


Our first meeting for 2018 held at the relaxing and beautiful Vincentia Golf Club was a success
The writers
Terry, Helene, Pat, Pauline, Cath, Juan and welcome back Jo

The words of the day
Exacerbate – intensify or worsen

Hyperbole - obvious exaggeration
Dissolve – melt, to break up, put an end to

Analects – collection of literary fragments
Quota - limited or fixed number of things

Hypodermic – introduction of medical treatment under the skin

Writing from words of the day
An excellent start to the year with writing on the topics of Relief, Mistaken impressions, Moving on, A tie stained with sauce, Difficult and Truth serum.

Reading of homework topic Christmas
Four writers read homework about Christmas past, Sticky rice and Milo, Shiver, shake and pixilate and Is it me?

How not to get published – Claire Gillman
Pat borrowed the above book from the Nowra Library. It contains information about the common mistakes made in manuscripts by novice writers.

We had a discussion on publishing and related issues. Juan brought a copy of the publication he arranged “Shoalhaven Young Writers Award 2016 - An Anthology” and talked about his experiences in publishing the Anthology.

Exercise – Bald ballerina
The writers developed a list of ten words associated with the word Bald. We then selected six of those words to write a story about a ballerina starting with “I was backstage”

The writer’s pirouetted around the ballerina exercise and wrote on the topics - Freedom, Cookamidgera, Legs were my passion, Glimpsing Pavlova, Uncle Fester, Family story and Hard to watch.

Homework
Possessed by an idea to write or you have written something that comes to life.