Jeannie has had a poem accepted by 'Unbridled', a publication for women only, run by Maggie Gibson & Jenny Lindsay who encourage & train new writers of poetry to stand up & read their poetry out loud.
OMs: Open Manuscripts. members were asked for any manuscripts & there were one or two submissions.
John S gave us another chapter in his novel - the episode where Graham experiences Woodstock & where the author mixes fact & fiction. For example, Graham taking a massive acid tab the night before & describing the whole experience as 'paradise' & the first publicity for Granola as a breakfast, which was given to the audience of 4 hundred thousand, the morning after the night before! The backdrop of the Vietnam War & all the young men who were escaping it by going over the border to Canada. The Peace Rally which was really much more of a riot - & Graham's American girlfriend Candy, who is a Soul Freak, while he is into the Grateful Dead, who were apparently 'crap' at Woodstock!
Rob took the homework: 'Hope is a Never-Ending Virtue.' to write about his beloved daughter who died of cancer. He admitted that his feelings were still raw about this, but described how strong & matter of fact she was, establishing a hockey charity called, 'Stick it to Cancer!' & her nature as a hoaxer, which could keep people puzzled for ages & continued to the end.
Jeannie McKenzie wrote what she termed as a starter paragraph for the last chapter of a Historical Novel she is writing. It was about a wonderful walk up by the River Esk, with floods of plants & flowers around a gorge where she & her husband discovered a Fisheries Officer checking the water. They learned quite a lot about salmon & what made them stronger & in particular, how they always aim to go back to the pool then came from.
John H described how he used the Wordle Game, with the words kept in the order given, to write a fairly substantial piece which is an extra challenge for him every Monday. It sounded quite tricky & how he managed it was amazing! One was called 'Judgement Day'.
Joan read out a short memoir that took her back to when she was a small child & featured her little brother having to be taken out of the film Bambi because he was crying so much!
READING
There was still quite a lot of time left, so we went round the room asking what each one of us was reading. It was extremely varied:
'Love untold' by the female writer of Gavin & Stacy.
'Dumbarton Stories' by Bill Heaney,
'Silent Tears' by Paul Henke.
'Noise' by Paterson.
'The Three Graces' by Amanda Craig
'Music in the Dark' by Sally Magnusson
'The Thin White Duke' by 2 Kriss Needs, history about David Bowie and Friars Aylesbury
'The Reluctant Servant' about Crawfie, the Queen's Nanny
A Trilogy by Pat Barker
'Death of a Salesman' by Arthur Miller
The Life Story of Shirley Ballas
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