Here’s your assignment: Choices of 5 topics to write on in any venue, milieu or menu to 1000 words. More than that, please make copies for all . Do not feel constrained. Let ‘er rip!
1. Valentine’s Day…cardiaque blanche; write about love and what it means to you (showing, or telling…even tattle-telling. Testimony on the witness stand. A eulogy!), or about St. Valentine, or the St. Valentine’s Massacre or Love Lost, or Love Lust, or Love-Hate or favourite Valentine candy or someone you know named Valentine or Love. Or a recipe with unusual elements or hearty ingredients -- Recipe for Romance, or Killing Valentine Cookies, etc.
2. or about hearts in general , cardiac problems or a character-to-be in one of your future earth-shattering novels with any of those colourful conditions. Or yourself, your feelings, or your psychedelic twin hidden the closet...
3. or about those lacking heart and soul. Koch Bros., Dagan, Picton, Al Capone, Ted Bundy and Himmler. Or something in your brain, heart or locker yearning to get out…
4. or about an animal, a Pet Perhaps; Something Out There peering in through your window or TV, or reaching into your brain from your iPod or MP3 player on a fark and doggy night...
Friday, January 28, 2011
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
New time for Cabin Fever Daze Skit!
We are meeting at my house Wed. Feb. 2nd at 9:30. My house is red and on the left as you head down the hill at the gymnastics club corner-347 Crerar St. Phone 427-5112. Be there or be square y'all!
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Calling All Writers
Calling all writers from the group who would like to read a poem & /or spoken word.
Time would be approx. 5 min.
Please email by Friday Jan. 21st. sunflower@xplornet.com
Thank you, its going to be a good time
nola
Time would be approx. 5 min.
Please email by Friday Jan. 21st. sunflower@xplornet.com
Thank you, its going to be a good time
nola
Thursday, January 13, 2011
"Buckets of" Meeting Wrap
Something interesting happened at this week's meeting. Nothing you can really put your finger on but it felt as if, as a group, that we've turned a corner. It was as nice as it has been on any other occasion but I personally felt challenged and critiqued. It was very exciting and I hope to see more of this sort of behaviour. We truly do have the ability to make each other better writers.
Jill did a stand up job facilitating this weekend. We started with a stream of consciousness warm up. Upon reflection we learned a lot about how each member thinks. All the way from fully formed grammatically correct sentences to abstract words and pictures. Very interesting and certainly appreciated.
Jill also started us off with our "buckets-of-personal-pronoun-free" exercise. Jill's piece was about a morning sunrise and a beast in the midst. Nicole recounted an experience where she saw her Father crying; buckets of tears. Heather gave us a laugh with a poem and told us more about buckets of hope. Sue set us all (literally) in a conflict that involved buckets of bucks while Mike wrote two poems: "ethnic cleansing" buckets of blood and a second that cheerily described buckets of milk and water and BEER. Nina wrote a descriptive piece about a loved one filled with emptiness, bringing to life memories. Marget write "In Fear of Fifty" Buckets of chirpy exchanges, a piece that brought new meaning to coming of age with a memorable line "the young of the old". Don wrote of Bruce the dunny man and his hilarious adventures cleaning out the honey buckets. A new comer Kate gave us a colorful description of a birds and buckets of water in a yard that are faced with a tom cat.
The meeting was a huge success and a great start to the new year. We're all looking forward to cabin fever days. Another idea that was brought forth was to bring your work for more in-depth critiquing. We've made a group to decision to go ahead and do this. On the February 8th any members that would like to pass out their work for an in depth critique should bring copies. If you would like to participate in the in-depth critique please comment on this blog post. This way we'll know how many copies everyone will need to bring.
Jill did a stand up job facilitating this weekend. We started with a stream of consciousness warm up. Upon reflection we learned a lot about how each member thinks. All the way from fully formed grammatically correct sentences to abstract words and pictures. Very interesting and certainly appreciated.
Jill also started us off with our "buckets-of-personal-pronoun-free" exercise. Jill's piece was about a morning sunrise and a beast in the midst. Nicole recounted an experience where she saw her Father crying; buckets of tears. Heather gave us a laugh with a poem and told us more about buckets of hope. Sue set us all (literally) in a conflict that involved buckets of bucks while Mike wrote two poems: "ethnic cleansing" buckets of blood and a second that cheerily described buckets of milk and water and BEER. Nina wrote a descriptive piece about a loved one filled with emptiness, bringing to life memories. Marget write "In Fear of Fifty" Buckets of chirpy exchanges, a piece that brought new meaning to coming of age with a memorable line "the young of the old". Don wrote of Bruce the dunny man and his hilarious adventures cleaning out the honey buckets. A new comer Kate gave us a colorful description of a birds and buckets of water in a yard that are faced with a tom cat.
The meeting was a huge success and a great start to the new year. We're all looking forward to cabin fever days. Another idea that was brought forth was to bring your work for more in-depth critiquing. We've made a group to decision to go ahead and do this. On the February 8th any members that would like to pass out their work for an in depth critique should bring copies. If you would like to participate in the in-depth critique please comment on this blog post. This way we'll know how many copies everyone will need to bring.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Woe is not 'me'...
Eye for an eye,
Tooth for a tooth.
I am a personal pronoun sleuth.
Leave out the 'he's, she's, me's and we's',
How about 'they's', and 'theirs' better bewares!
To write without pronouns maketh me cry,
To leave friends of nouns doth maketh me sigh.
For language will never again be the same,
And it's Ms. Christie's assignment that is largely to blame.
Hardy har har...
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Yeah Write
Check out this neat user-contributed blog that focuses on Writing Prompts.
http://yeahwriters.tumblr.com/
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