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Virtual sharing by email .... 'As usual, our stories were varied'

1/6/2020

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For our Creative Writing class, we have continued writing using a selection of prompts to choose from and sharing our work via email.  The class members have been encouraged to share feedback with the authors to help us develop our writing skills.

The topics (there were four this month) to select from for our 11 May class were:
  • He looked at the aircraft with trepidation. 
  • They first met when they were working for a large organisation
  • They had all come to see and hear the local boy made good. 
  • It was a sunny winter’s day by the lake, but the exercise area was quiet and empty.
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Each of the topics was used by at least one member of the class.  One theme that came through some of the stories, not surprisingly, was around the impacts or pictures of the current Covid19 pandemic impacts.  This included a poem, ending with an optimistic view for the future.
Some of the class also prepared a story covering the May Furious Fiction competition criteria:
  • Your story’s first word must be FIVE.
  • Your story must include something being replaced.
  • Your story must include the phrase A SILVER LINING (‘a’ or ‘the’ is fine).
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As usual, the stories were varied, all with a quite different subject, using the same criteria.  They included heading over to Scotland to meet up with a friend who could be new partner late in life, someone with dementia reliving learning to write, a prevented suicide, and changing the words of “Five little ducks” to meet the concerns of a five year old in class.

For our next class, the topics are:
  • It’s not unusual to find odd bits of paper tucked into library books for a bookmark, but this time it was a letter.
  • Henry looked guilty.
  • Yesterday I would never have guessed that this could be true
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Our next class is scheduled for June 8.  Unless there are changes in current restriction that allow us to meet, we will be sharing our stories and feedback via email.
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Joy Shirley
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    Creative Writing

    Have you ever thought of writing a short story, a novel, entering a writing competition?  Creative Writing is a 'guided self-help' creative writing session.  Each month we have a writing prompt, or a selection of prompts, to provide a starting point.  This can be a starting sentence, a topic, or perhaps a writing challenge.  The stories written during the month are shared with the class for feedback.  When meeting together, each session will start with a short writing or word challenge, followed by sharing of the feedback and, where time allows, discussion of writing hints and lessons.

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