Together once more - end of year afternoon tea at Rustik cafe

17/12/2020

December was our last class for 2020. We took the opportunity to catch up at one of the local cafes. What a treat it was to see faces of our classmates again. We discussed the process we had been following and how much we had enjoyed this while unable to meet. Parts of this will be continued once we are able to meet up in 2021.

We had already shared our writing for the month. The topics for our December class were:

By half past eight they had all arrived
This was a new light on…
Who’s that woman in the photo?

An overarching theme of friendship and love wove through the pieces this month. I am always surprised that with such different prompts and writing styles, there is often an overarching theme coming through our writing. The prompts don’t necessarily lead to these themes. It was also clear that the length of the written work is not an indicator of the strength of the piece. One of the pieces in less than 200 words gave a strong picture of a meeting in a country village to discuss a COVID plan – someone sneezed. The title is “How to Clear a Room in 2 Minutes and 14 Seconds”.

We decided that we should keep writing over the U3A break, with our contributions due around 10 January.

While we were together at the cafe, we jointly came up with the prompts for writing in January. The choices are:

She knew she shouldn’t have drunk [eaten etc] it
She was sitting alone in [the coffee shop…]
Two candles with pepper and salt shakers

New members are always welcome, so if you would like to join us in 2021, just tick the Creative Writing option on your enrolment form.

Joy Shirley

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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.

If you love to write, come and join us in 2026.