Minutes of High Town Writers' Workshop
7pm Tuesday 22nd October in The Spirit Room of Peepo's
Present: Adam (chair), Liz, Jennie, Irena, Stuart, Will, Suzie, Ruth, Fiona, Sue
Apologies: John A-S, Ann, Andy, Kath, Marie, Emma
We welcomed Will to the meeting and shared with him how we all find the group helpful in developing each person’s writing. Liz reminded people that some of the writing that members missed hearing or want to hear again can be found on the blog. People who want to share their writing - any writing! - on the blog can send it to hightownwriters@gmail.com or post it directly. She thanked Andy for sharing his writing on 'Water' and 'Cut' even though he had not been able to make the September meeting. Liz also directed members to Suzie’s blog which can be found at https://wordsfromanotebook.com/
For our warm-up writing, Adam asked us to imagine a different version of ourselves in either an alternative reality or if our lives taken a different path.
The meeting continued with sharing our October writing on the theme of 'The Barn' which featured a character based on an individual known to the writer. This character creation was explored during the warm up activity Jennie set for the September meeting. Many of us found the task very challenging but hats off to Ruth who rolled her unpleasant character into the very fabric of a nasty barn and wrote about the barn as if it was a person!
We asked all members to think about our December meetings / get-together/meal and to come up with ideas at the November meeting -
Irena will be leading a writing workshop at Bridgnorth Library on Saturday 16th November from 10am - further details from the library 01746 763358.
Next meeting : Tuesday 26th November at 7pm
Writing theme for October/November is ‘The Typewriter’
The meeting ended at 9.30pm
6 comments:
It was a good evening and yes...I was still thinking about Ruth's poem this morning!
Please note, the time/length of the workshop in November may be changed library end. I will update when I know for sure.
The workshop has just been confirmed as 10- 11.45am. Sat 16th November, about finding our writers' voice .
Thanks for linking to my website!! Appreciate it.
It was a good meeting and so encouraging that Ruth and Suzie are becoming regular members. I too was fascinated by Ruth’s poem, a brilliant idea and very imaginative. Hope Will chooses to come back, his writing was unusual.
I loved Will's piece too 🙂
Hello, Ruth here! Thanks for all the very encouraging feedback with regards to my poem ‘Diagnosis of Madame La Grange’! I truly didn’t think it was any good at all! It’s funny how you just don’t know what will resonate for people! Any way I have sent it in so hopefully it makes it into the blog so you can all read it again. Thanks again. Ruth
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