What's my excuse?

Tuesday night's writing group started out with a prompt provided by Nicole. Although she couldn't make the meeting, we appreciated her prompt and spent a lot of time laughing at the results. "You're late for work because you overslept, but your boss hates over-sleepers. He does love entertaining stories, so create the most outlandish excuse as to why you were late." We had a lot of fun with it, excuses ranging from a lack of clean underwear, bank robberies, flooding toilets, runaway babies, indiscretions with members of the boss's family, Lego in unfortunate body orifices and extra long vacations.

We spent the rest of the time critiquing personal work, and got about half way through the group, so we'll have to continue with that another night. Heather shared her lovely story about Faith and cute poem about Queen Calamity and King Crab, we heard two chapters from Sue's mystery: secret messages, Chinese tea, large-muscled hit men and creepy pulp mills. The description of setting was distinctly Canadian, and very well done. Mike presented the extended version of his Laundry poem, expanding the visual image of what life in a mill town in England was like, and the final piece of the evening was Nola's entertaining engagement with a canoe (she'd give Don a run for his money with her outdoor adventure writing), her perfectly matched gum boots and lipstick and the expansion of her adventure gene.

We had a vote as to which night would work for the oral presentation at the Beantree. Most can make May 28th, but Margaret, Joanne and Don can't (correct me if I'm wrong) - we could go ahead with the 28th or reschedule for later in June. We did decide to bring the writing that we want to present to our next meeting to fine-tune/practice. Which brings me to the next point.

We decided that the next meeting, May 25th, will be dedicated to the presentation, so we won't have a facilitator or a designated assignment. Anyone who can't participate at the Beantree, please still come to the meeting - bring along any writing that you'd like to share and your sharp wit.

Also, we'd like to welcome Kay to Write On. Great writing, Kay! We look forward to hearing more.