The Creative Writing Group, as you might imagine, loves words. We had a lot of fun with gems such as hurdle durkle, kakistocracy, lethologica and dysania* to name but a few.
Our writing prompts this month were two different paragraphs giving us a character, an action and some ideal of location. By virtue of the prompts, elderly men featured in various contexts - running away from home, having traumatic days, reflective days, taking wrong turns, being ignored by emergency workers.
Two members were able to share excerpts from their on going novels and memoir writing, giving us an insight into some fine character writing.
The prompts for our November session are:
1. “Moon Base Omega failed to report, sir.”
2. Low battery. Exactly the two words l didn’t want to see right now.
3. The winter wind rattled the windows.
*dysania - strong urge to go back to sleep, sleep inertia or fatigue.
Pat Treleaven
Our writing prompts this month were two different paragraphs giving us a character, an action and some ideal of location. By virtue of the prompts, elderly men featured in various contexts - running away from home, having traumatic days, reflective days, taking wrong turns, being ignored by emergency workers.
Two members were able to share excerpts from their on going novels and memoir writing, giving us an insight into some fine character writing.
The prompts for our November session are:
1. “Moon Base Omega failed to report, sir.”
2. Low battery. Exactly the two words l didn’t want to see right now.
3. The winter wind rattled the windows.
*dysania - strong urge to go back to sleep, sleep inertia or fatigue.
Pat Treleaven
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