General Chat

Helllppppp! The weekend is nigh and I have written nothing! *wrings hands and pulls hair whilst running round in circles ... :-D :-D :-D

Emma, I will be looking forward to your next piece :-D

I might do another family history bit myself.

Carry on Emma, I love to read about FH, and it is good that we have encouraged you out of the reading chair.

Rose I have apologised to Peter who was unaware of the scenarios, I have sent him the last lot and promised to e mail him the next lot I hope that is ok? :-)

Hi all,

Hope no one objects if I stick to my new found comfort zone
in writing about family history. Will not be offended if anyone
does not want me to send it to them.

Emma x

No rush Rose and thank you Dermot. And you certainly have too.

Thankyou to all who have sent me something in the last couple of days, I've not read any yet nor have I been hit with any inspiration :-( but maybe tonight?!

Thanks Dermot, and that includes you !


Jan X

'Britain's Got Talent' in the written word too as highlighted in the many contributions received so far from the GR Writers Group.

Well done everyone!

Hope you have more luck than me Mau, I am struggling this time.

Have printed this.Thanks Ann :-D

Rose I don't think anyone has tackled any of these so you may find something here.

A poem with the title ‘After’
A poem with the title ‘Before’

Prose
A travel piece 1000 words ‘I wish I could go back to ???’
This to accustom the writer to discipline themselves to a number of words.


“Never too old”


From the fiction square a scenario.

Characters: A carer and a waiter/waitress
Conflict: making a sacrifice
Weather: drizzle
Setting: car park
Object: a rare book.


Characters: Bus driver and a filing clerk
Conflict: infidelity
Weather: Rain
Setting: deserted beach
Object: A human thigh bone.





Had to C&P from my pc as for the life of me couldn't find it on here anywhere. :-)

Do we have a topic for this week? or are we all happily doing our own thing?. I've started something but got a bit lost with it
:-(

edit: memo to self ;-)

"Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite".

C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)

I am happy with attachments, thats how I send out my larger pieces....however I know Dermot had trouble opening mine, tried to help, but still don't know if he has opened or read them. Some sent have been disjointed but readable so thats all that counts..love every bodies work, well that I have seen.

Sorry no more parts for Beach Encounter, haven't got the block.....just trying to keep the mystery going

No, yours was fine Mau.

No Ann they're okay :-)..........incidentally hope mine are okay too :-D

Mau does mine come up small?

Agree Rose, and sometimes I type in 16 for that reason.

I think perhaps it might be a good idea to have others' thoughts on the subject,as I find some difficult to read too.

edit: your FH posts were okay Ann

It was OK for me. I know that sometimes the pieces I send don't arrive in the format I send them e'g' the paragraphs disappear or something. Which is why I sent the FH ones as attachments. I assume that nobody had a problem with that?

Thanks Mau, I type it in '14' font on word but it goes smaller on email, I suspect that is the case with most as usually I have to copy and paste what people send me, if it's lots of text, on to word to read it as my eyes aren't good.

Hi Rose
I had no problems with your 'Albert,' though the type was a tad small to read.
Mau x