the writing rectangle

Thanks to all who turned up last Wednesdy - I came away feeling positive about the group and really inspired to get down to some writing (have begun some notes for a 'Whatever happened to Tom/Dick/Harry?' story!
Chris - love your piece of work - I found it so funny I read it from front to back about three times in a row! One day you shall have that elusive audience - for now you'll have to make do with your faithful writing group.

Love,

AnnetteX

good morning

Have the sad news that my wonderful old faithful mouldy Ford Sierra has caught somebody's eye so much that they towed it away last night ! The battery was on the charger- the immoblizer was on, but was that a problem? NAY! they exclaimed, and took it as a challenge- so I am carbroken and did not even have the chance to wash off the mould before some new person sat on those comfy seats. Shall have to write to my Agony Aunt!

I hope this gets thorugh. I seem to have two blog accounts now, well two in the bush... or was it the other way around? Well I alkways thought two in the bush were better than one poor sod on his/ her own eh?
hugs
Corina

Testing.. testing

Looks like I'm okay to post still

The Importance of Titles

I would just like you all to know that my flatmate was using my computer yesterday, and in my bookmark's saw "Kara's Naughty Kids." She said, I don't even want to know. I said, No, it's a-- and she said, Don't care. Don't want to know. And I said, *sigh.*

Snapshot stories, boring?

So I thought I'd have a go at a snapshot thingie.
It has no story, but does that mean it's boring?
It's Like Watching Paint Dry

jim turns 5

Heyyyy, this is a series of shorts I'm going to intersperse between the longer pieces in my collection Your Future Life. They're kind of an antithesis to the idea of a future life as they're more about things you go through growing up, but they're also cyclical in that they are about raising a kid.

While I was going off Raymond Carver snapshots, I feel like these have more of a story to them than the Carver piece we read. There are four pieces here, "The Big Sleep," "Airbags went off," "Sunset at Bandaged Knee," and "Missile-Tow." I'll probably write one to two more. Any input on these would be great.

These shorts are all connected through one character, Jim. Whereas, the rest of the collection will be completely individual pieces. Bon appetit!

theme for stories

Hi All,

As you so rightly say Chris we really should use the blog to communicate then everything is in one place and there for all eternity…. Ah ah ha ha (evil laugh).

Meanwhile I have been thinking about our end of term booklets and themes and things. I think it would be nice to have a theme in a way, something to bind it all together.

I keep thinking about Ian’s story and his light touch about sex within a marriage. I think sex is an important part of life. A fact of life. Writing it well presents us all with a challenge but a very worthwhile one. It doesn’t need to be gratuitous but I don’t think you can avoid talking, or reading it, and be true to the art of writing. It’s like not talking about a part of life that makes us all tick to some extent.

Soo…. (boring stuff over) I think each of our stories should have some sex in them. Up to everyone how they do it. Maybe we should each choose a different ‘theme’ each even, (maybe that’s taking it too far!), but all of them to have something of sex in them.

What do you guys think?

Louise