Yesterday was Thursday 13th December. This of course means it was the afternoon for the AP Chapter & Verse meeting. There were supposed to be four of us there, but in fact only two of us showed up. One of us didn't bring the homework she was supposed to bring, because she hasn't done it yet.
Did this mean the meeting yesterday was a failure? Oh no, it certainly didn't mean that! This meeting had one member's homework presented, and loved by the other member. It had a fun writing exercise that resulted in a lovely and heartfelt poem, and a weird and wonderful piece of flash fiction. Things were talked about, planned, expanded upon too. It was a fine meeting, by anyone's calculations.
And the evening didn't end at the usual venue for our meetings. Last night was the night of the Christmas Party for the North Eastern Writers in Tea Tree Gully. The members and a couple of potential members car pooled and tootled off to the RSL hall for a night of words and friendship.
Much fun was had on the night, with quizzes, a poetry slam, food and drink, and a new potential role for one of the members - a stand up comedian? Ah, make that sit down comedian and I may be in for that!
It was a late night, that's for sure, but it was an extremely enjoyable evening, well worth staying up for!
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Friday, December 14, 2012
Monday, December 10, 2012
Moving into December!
Well, the Adelaide Plains Chapter and Verse group has survived through to the end of one month, and beyond! We began in November, with high hopes, and fair to middling expectations.
The reality is that this group has grown and far surpassed our hopes and expectations. The quality of the work that's been written by group members so far has been fantastically high, and I'm sure group members will continue to produce terrific writing.
Those of us who were at the last meeting shared out short stories, from the point of view of a disgruntled kitchen utensil, and then a lovey dovey sweet talk from another character.
The homework to be shared at the next meeting, on 12 December, at the Prince Albert Hotel in Gawler, South Australia is this:
write a short story based on a well-known story – biblical, myth or fairy tale, and change it by using a different point of view, or change the details of the story, make the main character bad instead of good, or in some other way.
Meetings are held every Thursday, starting at 3.30pm, and continuing until we run out of things to write, say, share etc!
The reality is that this group has grown and far surpassed our hopes and expectations. The quality of the work that's been written by group members so far has been fantastically high, and I'm sure group members will continue to produce terrific writing.
Those of us who were at the last meeting shared out short stories, from the point of view of a disgruntled kitchen utensil, and then a lovey dovey sweet talk from another character.
The homework to be shared at the next meeting, on 12 December, at the Prince Albert Hotel in Gawler, South Australia is this:
write a short story based on a well-known story – biblical, myth or fairy tale, and change it by using a different point of view, or change the details of the story, make the main character bad instead of good, or in some other way.
Meetings are held every Thursday, starting at 3.30pm, and continuing until we run out of things to write, say, share etc!
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