Homework is Resolutions. 

Hope to welcome new member Joyce.

To anyone who sees this, the photo is out of date!  

Am making preliminary arrangments for a workshop day in April – exciting!

The next meeting is at Heather’s flat in Cardigan on Monday 19th Dec.  The homework is to write a headline, and then the article or story to go with it, as if for a newspaper. 

I’ve done a short article about a couple down in the valley here who have Father Christmas and the reindeer drop by for hay and cheese sandwiches on a pit stop.  It turns out that Santa can’t stand mince pies!  

Happy Christmas and Best wishes to everyone.  

Our photo needs updating,.  It’s Heather, me and Denise on the font row.  The three men are Roy, James and Ken,  Kingley was away eht day.  Taken on my back lawn.

is on Monday  20th June and we are going to Heather’s new flat in Cardigan. 

On JUne 9th some of us are going to see Roy’s play at Aberporth which should be really good. 

The homework for next time is an Obituary, which could be for anything.  I’ve done a poem about a plant. 

Weather permitting.

James has the idea of compiling a poety anthology with the 52 types of poems that he has found on the internet.  We’ll see how it goes.

the next meeting is 18th October, homework is An Animal.

David Gardiner had prepared hand-outs with ideas for improving characterisation for short stories.  We all thought of a character, some using photographs he had brought.   The idea is to get inside the head of the characters as the more you know them the more convincing they are in the story.

After our cold lunch Anne Ballard led the poetry workshop.  We disocvered the fun of writing cinquains and a triolet.

Our next homework is Mowing the Grass.   I think, for our  writing challenge next time we’ll write cinquains and triolets with the subjects that we thought up for our 3 minute talk challenge, and we didn’t do.  

The next meeting is the Mon 20th Sept .

There were only 3 of us last Mondy,  James, Ken and myself but we read our homework, sorted out things and generally enjoyed ourselves.

There were just 5 of us this month but we sat outside in the sun and it was very pleasant.  We did a writing challenge.  I asked them if they could have anything what would it be?  We then liste them and included them in a short piece, about a scottish castle, a library, a boat, a set of Tolkien, and Leonard Bernstein playing Mahler in New York.

Good fun.