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The email has gone out

I dont' want anyone who might not have received it to think they have been thrown out of the group. That's nto the case at all. This is really only us finding out who are active members able to take part either as readers or writers. We dont' want to clutter anyone's inbox with loads of stuff.

Anyone who wishes to keep in the group who hasn't received a revised list this afternoon, just drop me a PM and I'll add you back in.

And if anyone wishes to join us, or come back, you'd be more than welcome. The door is always open, just come on the thread and say so.

The more the merrier.

Thanks Teresa for that, I have amended my list.

Stella if you are looking in, I have left you on the list but will remove you each time I send out until you return to us. If in error I send you a piece I apologise in advance, just delete it!

Yes I have left Stella on the list because I think it is only temporary, she'll be back, she'll miss us too much lol.

Same for Jane, she hasn't been able to contribute much and thought it best to withdraw for now, but I'm not letting her and will speak to her at the Peterborough meet. So for now, I've left her in it. so there ner.

Hi everyone, I have just been catching up with this thread that has increased greatly since I looked at it a couple of days ago!

Teresa, I like your idea of the three characters. Strangely enough I was going to suggest something similar: that one week we create and draw an imaginary character and describe him or her, then in subsequent weeks, a scenario is suggested and we each put our characters there and write about that. I thought about perhaps being in a restaurant, in a hospital ER, taking part in a sport, a family get-together, airport,....could be fun!

Oi you bossy britches !!!!!!!.Fancy not letting me go lol.Seriously I am not going to be able to contribute anything for now as I am going away next week and things are a bit hectic and all up in the air.I hope you aren't going to beat me into submission at the meet.

I go away for a week on 26th so wont be contributing for a week then. Jane just delete mine until you are able to contribute again, i am sure you will want to be back with us.

Helen, happy with a character for one week, but not sure about continuing with the same character every week. However if it is what everyone else wants no problem, may not be very good for Maggie though?

i have just sent a poem to everyone, it is not from one of the seeds though.

I find i can't make myself write good poetry to demand...lol so this is just a contribution to the group writing

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Thank you Stella, I think it is mostly the same for Maggie too. I definitely think the inspiration for poetry comes from a different part of the brain than that of prose. (otherwise we would all be able to write it.

For those who procrastinate, from my book.

If you know what you could do, should do and want to do…why don’t you do it?”

i spoke to Maggie the other day about it, and yes we both have a problem with prose and we both like our poetry to just flow from our hearts...


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Good to hear from you again Stella.

I will say again, these exercises are only a bit of fun, and you really don't have to do them at all if you don't want to, it's just for the sake of a little group activity to keep the creative flow going.

Helen, I like that idea, I will look around and see what we can do from that.

Ann, character building is a big part of good writing. You need to have some idea of the type of person your characters are, warts and all, and they should have faults or they will be too one-dimensional. Then your characters...er....character, will dictate their reaction to the situations you throw them into.

Not so important in the short story, we only need to know an element of a character, but for the longer story, we need to know background, looks, habits, foibles, temperament and so on to make a believable character, and place them in the world we create for them. Its worth thinking about.

Thats why I put the exercise here the other day. To play with three different characters viewpoint of the same situation. We knew the weather was fine, or the girl wouldn't be sitting under a tree, we know the guy was an outdoor type, hence hiking. We knew the farmer was working and the girls father. All three clues gave us elements of their character, and that dictated their thoughts and views on the same situation.

OK I stand corrected, I will do whatever you say of course.

Well, I have sent my very first one.... Stella and Jane, sorry I didn't know how to get you off my category without deleting you.... hubby will show me later... I have never done a multiple e-mail from a category before, lo lots of firsts!

I decided to let it flow, so that is almost draftless... just altered the format of a couple of sentences, as they didn't feel right. So it is a *baseline* for me.

Ann, thanks for the guidelines... thought I'd keep it a bit shorter for a first.

Love

Daff xxxx

Got it, well done Daff, the first one is always the hardest to send out, though I really don't know what you're worrying about having read it. lol

Very good daff, why didn't you join before?

That's just what I said in my PM, Ann! Well done Daffy! XX

i enjoyed it too Daff, would never have guessed it was your first piece

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please leave me on your list..

*blushes* thank you... and I didn't join before because I was nervous about people seeing my stuff!

Love

Daff xxx

Awww Daff, we all were at first.

Well, there has to be an element of trust, I suppose. After all, they are our babies:) BC XX