| Status: | Active, open to new members |
| Coordinator: | |
| Group email: | Writers group |
| When: | On Monday mornings 10:00 am-11:30 am 2nd & 4th Monday |
| Venue: | Colville House |
| Cost: | £2.50 |
If you are interested in joining this group please contact the group leader using the link above or phone 07767 431565
Please note this group is full at present
Contact details on how to join our waiting list are shown above
Our group meets on the second and fourth Mondays of each month, from 10.00 till 11.30 at Colville House. We take it in turns to lead the group, which has ten members at present. New members would not be expected to lead, until they feel at ease with their own writing and confident enough to help us explore a new theme.
If you fancy a taster, please don't be discouraged. Until you feel at ease with a piece you have written, you would not be expected to read it out on your first session or two. At each meeting, we do offer a topic for homework, but this is not compulsory!
Ours is a friendly and relaxed group and we often enjoy a chuckle.
Occasionally we chose a venue to visit to search for further inspiration, or invite a local author to speak to the group.
If you feel that you would like to give us a try, you would be most welcome.
Recent Topics Have included
- Two sessions on exploring the "Art for All" group's pictures as an opportunity to write stories and poems.
- The importance of dialogue: beginning a piece of writing with a conversation, without describing your characters.
- A given intro-sentence to expand into a narrative. Word associations from a variety of shapes, e.g. a tree, a fish. Providing an ending for us to write a beginning and a middle.
- "Hands-on holidays:" examples for the group to expand, from a choice of working holidays.
- Story-creation from the pictures revealed after throwing a set of story-dice.
- Create one or two characters from a choice of good/bad traits, then choose an event that triggers a change in one or both characters.
- Play-writing: bullets to begin, i.e. setting, time, season, characters. Develop a play.
Members from the writers and art groups have collaborated to create a wonderful booklet called “Artistic Licence". The writers interpreted pictures by the art group and used these to explore their writing Anybody interested in purchasing a copy at £2.50 each please contact group leader using link above