Today was ‘Exercise
Day’. On parade we had, Tracey, Sonia, Judy (welcome back), Terry and me.
Sadly, KT had hurt her back, Julee had a doctor’s appointment and Janeen was
studying for an exam.
We started off with
a general chit chat about, of all things, just how useless Qantas Frequent
Flyer points are. After we’d had enough of that, we started work.
For this week, I
devised an exercise on words to avoid when writing. I gave an example of a piece
of writing full of bad words and invited everyone to re-write it and remove the
bad words. While not mind boggling it did give us all pause to reflect on the
words we use in our stories.
Tracey had given me
a topic – A car found thirty years after the crash. We all wrote a short piece,
using the first exercise as a guide. As per usual, when we do these impromptu
stories, some good results were achieved and more than one of them could be
easily turned into a short story.
The exercise can be found on our Writing Exercise page in the next couple of days.
All in all, it was
a thought provoking session which, I hope, will improve everyone’s writing.
Hope to see you all next week. Until then, aapako shaanti mile
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