Month: November 2022

Poems and short stories set the trend for the coming Thursday’s session, with no fewer than six of the former and four of the latter from eight different authors. This, as well as a short story in progress, from which we will hear a further extract. The standard of writing continues to be of a…

This week brings a full agenda, which is opened with the popular Mug of the Month competition. The keywords WATCH and PLAN have inspired ten members to put fingertip to keyboard. It is always fascinating to see the wide diversity in themes which results when our writers respond to the given words. Three further poems…

After last week’s interesting and instructive presentation of ‘Character Description and Development’ sketches by our members, and Frank’s guidelines excerpted from ‘Story Genius’ by Lisa Cron (2016 Ten Speed Press, Berkeley), a new challenge is due on Thursday: ‘Writing a Love Scene’! Seven brave people have taken the plunge, opened their hearts and entered their…

This week we continue with the new series of Write-On Challenges. The set task was to write a character description of no more than 100 words. We look forward to interesting and enlightening examples of this technique. A futher challenge for next week will also be introduced and explained. Using the Write-On Sessions to broaden…

After the close contest for Mug of the Month last week, this week sees a new challenge: What Happened on Tuesday? The Tuesday in question being the day before the Beatles’ teenager left home on ‘Wednesday morning at five o’clock’. Her parents had given her ‘everything money could buy’, so what made her leave? Answers…