Our topic for Monday 22 June is 'I Grew Up In...' - an open ended chance to reminisce about our childhood from all sorts of interesting angles. Email stories to bevlee47@gmail.com.
Beverley Lee
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'As Time Goes By' provides an outlet and support for members keen to write about their lives and to tell stories their families may not get around to asking them about. A number of group members are continuing to write stories for their 'portfolio' during the break, sharing stories with one another online through the website each month. This month Betty contributed a poem for the newsletter and her web page written in response to 'COVID-19', Barry and Margaret reflected on Anzac Day, while Joy, Elizabeth, Ray, Bev and Marg wrote about 'Winging It' or 'Taking the Plunge'. Stories due in late May for 'Turning Point' and a catch up story by Marg Nelson for February's topic 'Something I'm Proud Of' have already been submitted.
Our topic for Monday 22 June is 'I Grew Up In...' - an open ended chance to reminisce about our childhood from all sorts of interesting angles. Email stories to bevlee47@gmail.com. Beverley Lee We’re underway with our social distancing project, sharing stories written on monthly topics on the website. They are added first under a password for class members to read and comment on, then made available to all visitors to the website and added to each writer’s page on ‘Our Stories’.
Seven ‘Making Waves’ stories (our topic for March) are now available to all visitors to our web page. I really enjoyed reading these stories - an underlying theme was the anxiety involved and resilience required to 'make waves' and the reinforcement of personal integrity which can result. April’s topics ‘Anzac Day’ and ‘Taking a risk and winging it’ or ‘Taking the plunge’ are currently being added under password for class members to read and comment briefly upon. Here are some triggers to use when writing comments -
Remember, if the monthly topic doesn't work for you, you can always draw from your 'Ideas Piggy Bank' or little book of 'triggers'....(choose two elements from either of these sources and write a story of about 250 words or so on each) or write on a universal topic such as 'The year that made me'; 'New in Town'; or 'Someone who Shaped me'. Please give me a call on 5762 8171 or 0478 607 838 if you have any questions. New members welcome! Bev Lee |
About 'As Time Goes By' - Memoir Writing'As Time Goes By' provides an outlet and support for members keen to write about their lives and tell stories their families may not get around to asking them about. A memoir is a slice from a person’s life which focuses on a particular theme or lesson or flavor of experience, an aspect of life that is most unusual or fascinating. Each month class members reminisce, write about and share memorable ‘slices’ from their lives in response to set ‘500 Words’ themed writing topics.
Please note - The course does not cover writing a detailed, chronological autobiography. Convenor & Contact detailsBeverley Lee
5762 8171 Meeting Times4th Monday 2 - 4 pm
U3A Meeting Room - or during Covid-19, this is the time to emailed stories to Bev to be shared online. 2021 Collection'Found'
'Triggers' 'This (...) Life' 'If Only I ...' 'Right Here, Right Now' 'Crash' 'Stock and Land' 'Cringe' 'A Childhood Memory' 'Curved Ball' 'The Year that Made Me' 'Someone who Shaped Me' 'A Memoir' 'Anzac Day' 2020/2021 'One Moment, This Year' (2020) 'A Love Letter to Travel' 'Too Hard Basket' 'New in Town' 'In Isolation' Collection 2020March: Making Waves
April: Winging It/Taking the Plunge May: Anzac Day or Turning Point June: 'I grew up in...' July: 'Car Stories' and 'Ideas Piggy Bank' August: 'Right Here, Right Now' September 'Out of the Blue' October 'This Life' November 'Triggers' December 'One Moment, This Year' - (2020) (due in Feb) Past topics
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LinksLife Matters 500 words writing projects
Australian Writers' Centre Victorian Writers' Centre - Writers' Victoria Wheeler Centre Archives
July 2022
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