'Why was I not surprised that the light switch did not work?...'

It was a small group, but we enjoyed sharing our writing efforts.  There were three contributions based on the topic “why was I not surprised that the light switch did not work”.  One was a ghost story where the light in the room would stop working even with new globes; one was the loss of a partner, who had never fixed the problems he had promised; one was moving to new property where the power had not been switched on as had been promised.  Finally, there was a story based on a sentence from a book.  Discussion around writing a story based on a sentence from a book considered the temptation of writing the same story as in the book.  We are also keen to move more to helping one another by providing helpful critiques – were we able to picture what was happening, was there too much, or too little description.  We are all keen to work more around fiction/creative writing

Joy Shirley