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August - 'Right Here, Right Now'

31/8/2020

 
It is always a thrill when stories by ‘As Time Goes By’ group members arrive in my email inbox each month. Many of this month’s 'Right Here, Right Now' stories explore experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic and are well worth reading.  Bev Morton’s story ‘Right Here, Right Now… Portrait of a Pandemic’ and Claire Rudolph's 'Right Here, Right Now' stories are included in the September newsletter; others will be published in future newsletters and included in ‘Covid-19 Musings’.

Becoming immersed in writing memoir-based stories is a wonderful way to stave off loneliness, particularly if living alone.  Reminiscing is also supposed to be good for retaining our linguistic and other skills!   If you would like to write and submit stories on our monthly topics during this most unusual, rather surreal, time, email them to me at bevlee47@gmail.com on or around the 4th Monday of the month or arrange to drop your story in my letterbox!  

Our September topic - due on or around Monday 28 September – ‘I came down with a thud’… or ‘Out of the Blue’ -  ‘Share your memories of a time when ‘you came down with a thud’ or when something happened ‘out of the blue’ in 500 words’.
 
Bev Lee

July - 'Car Stories', 'Ideas Piggy Bank' - coming up 'Right Here, Right Now'

9/8/2020

 
Our monthly stories are being shared as topic ‘collections’ on the website – a way of sharing them which allows recognition of common memories so enjoyed when we shared stories in class BC ie…’before covid’.  This month ‘Car Stories’ and reminiscences drawn from our ‘Ideas Piggy Bank’ were shared on-line and added to our individual pages on ‘Our Stories’.  A further story has been added to ‘I Grew Up ...’.

With more time at home on our hands, a master list of ‘500 words’ topics covered since the group commenced in 2015 to the end of 2020 has been emailed to class members. The aim is to encourage everyone to keep writing during the Covid-break!  There’s also a column for ‘decades’ to help us to sequence stories into whether they occurred when we were children, teenagers, twenty or thirty somethings…, or seventy, eighty or ninety somethings! 

Our topic for Monday 24 August is ‘Right Here, Right Now' - ‘A time capsule of the present.  Write a story about a situation currently unfolding in your life, right here, right now’. Upcoming topics for Monday 28 September - ‘I came down with a thud’… or ‘Out of the Blue’ -  ‘Share your memories of a time when ‘you came down with a thud’ or when something happened ‘out of the blue’ in 500 words’. Email stories to bevlee47@gmail.com.   All welcome to join in!

Bev Lee
    'Our Stories'

    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 details

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    Beverley Lee
    5762 8171

    Meeting Times

    4th Monday 2 - 4 pm
    ​U3A Meeting Room - or during Covid-19, this is the time to emailed stories to Bev to be shared online.
    ***As Time Goes By - 
    Topics for 2022
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    Memoir Review - Framework for Analysis
    Master list of  500 word story topics from 2015 to end of 2020
    As Time Goes By - Topics for 2021
    The Memoir Writing Club - Online Courses

    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 2020

    March: 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'
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    October 'This Life'
    November 'Triggers'
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    December 'One Moment, This Year' - (2020) (due in Feb)

    Past topics 

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    2018 Topic List
    '23 Words'
    'A Friendship Tested' //
    'A Love Letter To Travel'
    'A Turning Point'
    Australian Writers Centre
    'Car Stories' //
    'Easter'
    'Experiences Of The Unexplained'
    'Fish Out Of Water'
    'For Better For Worse' //
    'Good Vibrations'
    'Grandparents' //
    'Heartbreak'
    'I Broke It'
    'Ideas Piggy Bank'
    'If Only'
    'I Quit!' //
    Life Matters 'Life In 500 Words'
    'Lost And Found' //
    Making Comments
    'Making Waves'
    'My Other Life'
    'One Moment
    'Stand Up Comedy'
    This Year'
    'What Happened In Vegas'

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    Victorian Writers' Centre - Writers' Victoria

    ​Wheeler Centre

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