Hi all,, especially Tony to whom we send our regards.
Please note that the meeting originally planned for this Thursday will not now be going ahead.
Can we agree on a date at the end of November when we can hold our wordwatchers meeting over a few festive drinks at Jurnets Bar?
Please come back with some ideas everyone and keep accessing the blog !
Keep writing everyone:-)
Tuesday, 25 October 2011
Monday, 24 October 2011
Sunday, 16 October 2011
Human Glue - - Hilary Hanbury
Synopsis -
You can never remove yourself from who you are. You can embrace it, run from it, pretend it never existed but what you can never do is stop it from being a part of you.
A family is the sum total of all its constituent parts like a jigsaw puzzle. Unlike a proper jigsaw puzzle, they seldom fit together neatly, but are random pieces, touching at the edges and sometimes curving around one another snugly, but the whole picture is never revealed. People try to make them fit by forcing the pieces together, but that can be painful for the doer and the done to.
Other bits are sometimes thrown into the pattern to fill the gaps. This changes the whole thing and occasionally a small corner looks as if it might work. It depends on whether the random piece is captured or gets lost.
When a piece gets lost it affects the rest. The pattern must then cast around for other pieces to try to make it whole, then, all of a sudden the random piece is found and now, there is no room for it.
How does the final pattern arrange itself? What pieces of the puzzle will form part of the whole and which ones will never be found?
This human jigsaw is like the one that Grandmother had on the table for years, trying to find those random pieces and refusing to throw it away because she knew that one day they would turn up. Once they did, the whole thing would be glued together and put on display under a big plate of glass.
Thursday, 13 October 2011
Margaret and Tony: Meeting tonight (13th October)
Hello everyone,
Margaret and I have arrived at Wensum and read your blog messages! I hope you both get better soon, Hilary and Caroline!
We will both keep an eye on the blog ......
Very best wishes,
Margaret and Tony
Margaret and I have arrived at Wensum and read your blog messages! I hope you both get better soon, Hilary and Caroline!
We will both keep an eye on the blog ......
Very best wishes,
Margaret and Tony
Oh dear, message to the Word Watchers too...
I am afraid I won't be able to make it either tonight for our little gathering on 13th September. I have had some kind of tummy bug since the week –end and it progressively got worse.
Pity I had done quite a bit of writing and I was so looking forward to sharing it with you all.
The course on Tuesday evening went well (although when we arrived at reception we were told that the course had been moved to Wednesday nights). That did send the four of us, present on Tuesday, in a bit of a panic (Margaret, Ben, Richard and I). Fortunately Lynne Bryan, the tutor wasn't told either, so they eventually found us a room (no room was booked for 11th September) and the course went ahead, thank goodness!!
My feeling and, it is only my feeling, is that the course is quite a big step up from last year's. Ben has already got a whole first draft of his novel and Richard, the other new person has his plot outline and a few scenes written, which is kind of where I am.
Lynne, the tutor will be far more hands-on and will request far more work from us, I think, compared to last year.
She is used to mentoring writers and script writers, who have already done a fair bit of their work. She is very nice and funny but probably might be less gentle with us than lovely Gary was. I must admit that it is what I was after and if, by the end of the course, I could arrive to a first draft of my masterpiece, then I will be a happy customer!!!!
On the night itself, we did a few exercises mainly interviewed each other in pairs then we introduced the person we had interviewed to the group. We also told Lynne what we expected from the course and she told us what she was expecting the course to be about. She is really going to try to work with each other and our ‘masterpieces’, almost on an individual basis, which I think in fantastic. We also talked about all the things that stop people from writing and Lynne read to us how some famous writers wrote. Some in bed, some using always the same kind of notebooks, some using only fountain pens, etc.
Julie, if you are reading this, I know that you can't make Tuesdays, but I think you would have liked it.
Message for HILARY and PETER: HOMEWORK for next Tuesday:
Lynne asked us to put it on the blog for you, as we discussed what experience/what courses we did before. And she knows some of us have done Gary’s course.
Margaret please do feel free to edit this part if you understood the homework a bit differently!
I will see some of you next Tuesday at Wensum Lodge and the others on Thursday in 2 weeks time, I guess.
Caroline
Pity I had done quite a bit of writing and I was so looking forward to sharing it with you all.
The course on Tuesday evening went well (although when we arrived at reception we were told that the course had been moved to Wednesday nights). That did send the four of us, present on Tuesday, in a bit of a panic (Margaret, Ben, Richard and I). Fortunately Lynne Bryan, the tutor wasn't told either, so they eventually found us a room (no room was booked for 11th September) and the course went ahead, thank goodness!!
My feeling and, it is only my feeling, is that the course is quite a big step up from last year's. Ben has already got a whole first draft of his novel and Richard, the other new person has his plot outline and a few scenes written, which is kind of where I am.
Lynne, the tutor will be far more hands-on and will request far more work from us, I think, compared to last year.
She is used to mentoring writers and script writers, who have already done a fair bit of their work. She is very nice and funny but probably might be less gentle with us than lovely Gary was. I must admit that it is what I was after and if, by the end of the course, I could arrive to a first draft of my masterpiece, then I will be a happy customer!!!!
On the night itself, we did a few exercises mainly interviewed each other in pairs then we introduced the person we had interviewed to the group. We also told Lynne what we expected from the course and she told us what she was expecting the course to be about. She is really going to try to work with each other and our ‘masterpieces’, almost on an individual basis, which I think in fantastic. We also talked about all the things that stop people from writing and Lynne read to us how some famous writers wrote. Some in bed, some using always the same kind of notebooks, some using only fountain pens, etc.
Julie, if you are reading this, I know that you can't make Tuesdays, but I think you would have liked it.
Message for HILARY and PETER: HOMEWORK for next Tuesday:
Lynne asked us to put it on the blog for you, as we discussed what experience/what courses we did before. And she knows some of us have done Gary’s course.
Margaret please do feel free to edit this part if you understood the homework a bit differently!
1) Write the summary of your novel (maximum: 1 side of A4).
A few pointers to help us:
Try to reveal the ‘heart’ of your plot.
Try to convey what kind of genre it is.
Give names of writers who write the same kind of things as you are writing.
What is your book about?
Maybe condense the plot to its essence.
2) Write the first sentence of your novel.
I will see some of you next Tuesday at Wensum Lodge and the others on Thursday in 2 weeks time, I guess.
Caroline
Will Anyone Be There?
As Hilary and Peter can't make it, and I have quite a way to come, I just wanted to make sure someone else will be there tonight. Please reply to this blog, email me (I shall email you all as well) or text me on 07833 998545. If I don't hear from anyone I may not come, so please get in touch.
Thanks
Julie
Thanks
Julie
wordwatchers - message to everyone from Hilary
Hi all,
Sorry I have the most awful flu type symptoms so would hate to give what ever it is to everyone else. I hope the meeting goes well this evening and hope to see some of you next week at the course on Tues ( Caroline and Margaret, how did it go on Tuesday?) and the week after ( 27th Oct) at Wensum Lodge for our wordwatchers meeting as usual. Should have no probs getting a room as its half term.
Sorry to let you down this week but really do feel awful. I will post my contribution to the blog at some point so you can all give me some feedback.
I'm off back under my duvet folks. Have a great meeting.
Sorry I have the most awful flu type symptoms so would hate to give what ever it is to everyone else. I hope the meeting goes well this evening and hope to see some of you next week at the course on Tues ( Caroline and Margaret, how did it go on Tuesday?) and the week after ( 27th Oct) at Wensum Lodge for our wordwatchers meeting as usual. Should have no probs getting a room as its half term.
Sorry to let you down this week but really do feel awful. I will post my contribution to the blog at some point so you can all give me some feedback.
I'm off back under my duvet folks. Have a great meeting.
Sunday, 2 October 2011
Word Watchers - The Next Meeting l3th October
Dear Hilary, Caroline, Julie, Margaret and Tony,
Good to see you all in the conspiratorial candle light of the Bicycle Shop. Unfortunately, when I got home my wife reminded me that I would be away on the date set for the next meeting on l3th October. Please accept my apologies. I hope the meeting goes well.i I will be available for a future meeting.
Keeping writing,
All Good Wishes,
PETER.
Good to see you all in the conspiratorial candle light of the Bicycle Shop. Unfortunately, when I got home my wife reminded me that I would be away on the date set for the next meeting on l3th October. Please accept my apologies. I hope the meeting goes well.i I will be available for a future meeting.
Keeping writing,
All Good Wishes,
PETER.
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