General Chat

I can't join in anything until the New Year as am up to my ears in stuff and carol singing etc :-D I haven't got a creative thought in my brain right now <3

*bows gracefully through Exit 7 :-D

BC XX

Good Jan. you did get the email addy list didn't you?

Will have a go at the Christmas one

Rose re the papers, theya re all a bit daunting so I shall have to make myself get down to reading them. One folder amused me. Dad seems to have written to his local MP regularly poor chap, My dad had an opinion on everything, but it is interesting to see what he wrote about and that he actually always got a reply from the poor fellow plus often a ministerial reply too. Bet he was a thorn in the side to them :-D :-D

In the next week or so I wonder if we could come up with a Christmas story or poem or factual information about Christmas?

I have a story I wrote a few years back, may have put it on Genes way back before the writers group formed so will look it out and see what I think.

Emma you haven't really been missed out at the moment. Only our stalwarts, Jan and Dermot have been sending out and I think they stopped when you asked to be let off for a while. I have just given your e mail addy back to Jan as she had lost it. I think we have been drifting a bit for a few months but we said we would try and 'pull ourselves together' in the new year.

If I do send anything out and I may in the next week or so, I will send to you of course.

It would help, if anyone is reading who used to read/write would come on the thread and state if they are still interested. I know BC is thinking. (I can hear her from here Lol). But any others?

I'm available for stuff to be sent to me, know at this
time of year it's difficult as folk have other things to
think of but, the offers there. :-)

Emma

That's good Ann, it will be interesting for you to read and see if you write 'like your dad'. :-)

I have some of my mum's poems and bits on her chilldhood and when she had my brother and I. Yet another thing that I must get around to doing!, copy them to PC and print, as much of it was written after she developed parkinsons and the writing is tiny.

I haven't had time to look through it yet but my sister has just passed on a load of papers she took from my Dad's place when it was sold when he went into the home that would have been in 1997 and he died in 2001. Among his papers is a folder full of musings and poems, so that is where I get it from! I look forward to reading them when I get home from Hampshire. :-D

Hi Wend

I have padded it out and added more, but got a bit of writers s block over the last few months, then thought it was horrible ! So thank for your kind remarks. If you are interested I could e mail the revised version, and you can give me your thoughts....on plus side have written a lot of poetry tho . E mail me, I have mislaid all the ones we used earlier, so get me via genes

Will pick up on a story from the above

Jan

Just looking at a writers mag for ideas.
See if any of these suggest anything to you.

Your central character: has a secret. And maybe also has a problem
What does your central character fear losing, what is at stake?
There is a cemetery and a bunch of flowers involved.
"Tomorrow I shall have to tell them"

Make something out of the above.

A phone call
A glass of wine
A thunder storm
An animal
A lost shoe.

And make something out of that


A couple of ideas there anyone think of any more?

Have you finished your thriller Greenfingers? - I was enjoying that.

will someone suggest a theme ? Dermot and I and Ann have been keeping this going all summer, but it would be nice to have a deadline and a theme. Will we e mail ?


Regards

*loud applause from the gallery :-D :-D :-D <3

Hello Ladies, and Dermot,

Nice to see the thread again :-D

Hopefully will encourage everyone to resume writing, and maybe even bring a few new members to the group.

Might attract the ghosts Mau, then you can write us a ghost story.

Will have to find my thinking cap,sharpen the old quill and go and sit in the attic..........must remember the candle ;-)

Mau xx

Dermot thanks again.

Emma

BC, yes, if we maybe have a deadline to go by we will be more inspired. Shall have to retrieve my thinking cap.

:-D :-D