General Chat

Am looking forward to it Regards Jan

Emma I have to say I consider our readers as important as our writers so I look forward to your comments.

Looks as though its' going to be a very enjoyable reading time
this year again, look forward to reading new members offerings.

Emma x

Jan, yes or you can ignore suggestions and go with your own ideas, we are not strict about it. We don't always have suggestions either unless somebody actually asks. We find the suggestions help get over a block. This time theyw ere taken with the help of the magazine Writers Forum which publishes a 'fiction' grid from which to choose the scenarios, plus a couple of extras from my 'brain'.

As I said earlier the scenarios given are good and the juices are flowing, but do you change them every month ?

Regards Jan

If you would like to give me an email address BM, I will forward a list of current members emails when I have their permission to do so.

In the meantime I will send you a PM with my own email and then I will forward anything you wish to send, or if you wish you can just PM me the writing and I will forward it to members :-D

Alright, I will give it a go tomorrow. Where do I post the stories?

Me too Rose. And you could say we have a captive audience too.

rofl Ann!

but it's a good point, I was very quiet and shy at school but found when writing for English classes that I had 'a voice'.

I guess we like the 'sound' of our own voices Lol!!!!

For example I have written quite a bit about my childhood and places I've lived, I scribble some poetry...others do it better but I enjoy it, I sometimes start a story, and get half way through and run out of steam lol... we do a bit of everything really, travel diaries, poetry, romance.... anything goes :-D

I don't think there is an actual purpose as such. It is for people who want to write and who want to improve their writing. Sometimes we do, as this time when we have subjects to chopose from because we have all got a bit 'lazy'. Other times we write whatever we feel like. although I have not bothered with trying to get them published In 2010 I wrote a 90 chapter novel and last year I wrote a 50something one. sending them out a chapter a week. Others write short stories and other write poems. The poets we have had are excellent too.

Well the purpose is enjoyment really :-D I like to write, for my own pleasure and I suppose that applies to all of us in the group...if we then have someone else to read it and give a bit of encouragement so much the better. None of us has ( so far as I know) sent anything to a publisher...but it's not beyond the bounds of possibility :-D

Sometimes, as below, we suggest topics, more often than not though each of us writes something that we have thought of ourselves, inspired by events, or memories, or whatever seems worth writing about :-D

So what is the purpose of it and how do you decide what to write about?

Mau, hadn't realised it was similar but you're right there was a canoe before and no dog.

Hi BM, basically we try to write one piece every week or fortnight ( sometimes more, sometimes less depending on inspiration levels and how busy we are in 'real life') which is sent to the other members for their perusal lol...and sometimes some constructive comments are returned as to how it could be improved :-D

Hi, What do you have to do if you are a member?

I've put on the letter to current members that perhaps we can have the first piece in on or before Jan 15th a week Sunday, which will give us all time to get the Christmas decorations down and get back to 'normal' ( and give time for me to get confirmation of who wants to continue receiving work etc) ...and then perhaps one piece a fortnight or more often if we have time?

Love the scenarios..how long do we get to write ?

Jan X

Thanks Ann and Rose....(dinner gong had sounded ;-)

....snow, a lake, a horse and a dog? sounds familiar!..oh no sorry that was a canoe. Mau XX :-S