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June - Shared stories then a semester end warmup at the Northo

25/6/2018

With Joy holidaying overseas and our scheduled day falling on a public holiday we only had three of our writers “in residence”.

We enjoyed contributions from Betty with a beautifully written piece on “We didn’t know that it would be our last sunset at the lake” . Neville’s memoir piece on Family Rituals reflected on traditions or regular routines being a continuum in providing solace for some but in doing so, excluding others. Jenny wrote on a story reflecting emotions eg fear, determination. The story illustrated the terror and fear of a Vietnamese family escaping from their country.

Our varied subjects promoted quite a lot of discussion, before a move was made to the North Eastern for a warming beverage. This was planned to be our last day at the North Eastern as Creative Writing will now extend for 2 hours at our U3A room.

The tasks for the Creative Writing session from 1.30 to 3.30 pm on the 9th July are –

Write a story using one of the following prompts:
Two years ago, I swore I would never come back here again
Helen looked up from her reading and her book fell from her lap
I was not ready to admit defeat
Add to a paragraph supplied.

Jenny McKenna

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Creative Writing

We are a group of people who love writing. The class is for those who enjoy writing, irrespective of experience or training. If you have ever thought of writing a short story, a novel, entering a writing competition this can be a good starting point.

The class provides the encouragement to write and the opportunity to receive feedback from like-minded creative writers. .

This is not a creative writing training course, but each class will include some discussion points or hints around writing, and perhaps a writing challenge. Then we discuss stories written by class members, providing constructive feedback to help us improve our writing.

To provide a starting point each month we have a writing prompt, or a selection of prompts. This can be a starting sentence, a topic, or perhaps a writing challenge. The length of the stories will vary. It could be 300 words or 3000, or even a portion of a longer manuscript.

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