Our session had to be rescheduled this month, with the date - Monday 29th September - well past the newsletter deadline! Being able to access a (very rare) 5th Monday proved a huge relief as a two-month gap is always too long.
The theme for the session is ‘Transitions’. Stories on ‘Retirement’ will be shared by Anne, Jan, Max and John; while Barry, Ray, Tom and Merv’s stories on ‘It was Time for a Change’ will be on the table.
Carmyl, who has a gift for developing topics we can adapt one day, has written a beautiful story ‘Sixty-Three Years Ago’. Robyn plans to share her recent story ‘How We Met’, Tom his story on ‘I Was There’.
There are other stories still on the books which can be shared at the session, including Shirley’s ‘My Father’s Clock’, Joan’s ‘Love Letter to Travel’ and ‘My Other Life’, Neville’s ‘Gap Year’, Delfina’s ‘Sisters’, and James’ ‘Steep Learning Curve’ - and there may be more on the day.
The theme for October – ‘Life Challenges’ – the topics
‘If only … ‘ Write about an ‘if only’ moment in your life in 500 words, describing the context surrounding it as richly as you can. Choose something which won’t make you depressed, something you feel you have ‘dealt with’, but at the same time something which shares the impact of even a brief moment in your life.
‘This Too Shall Pass’ Write about a particularly difficult period of your life, how life went on and perhaps also the lessons you learnt from it...
If you have writer’s block, think about writing the topic as a poem, a standup comedy set, a script!
October is ‘Come and Try’ month, a chance for interested members and visitors to come along on Monday 20 October from 2 to 4pm to see what we do. Bring along and share your first ‘500 words’ story on an October topic, or just sit, listen and enjoy the day’s collection of stories.
Bev Lee
The theme for the session is ‘Transitions’. Stories on ‘Retirement’ will be shared by Anne, Jan, Max and John; while Barry, Ray, Tom and Merv’s stories on ‘It was Time for a Change’ will be on the table.
Carmyl, who has a gift for developing topics we can adapt one day, has written a beautiful story ‘Sixty-Three Years Ago’. Robyn plans to share her recent story ‘How We Met’, Tom his story on ‘I Was There’.
There are other stories still on the books which can be shared at the session, including Shirley’s ‘My Father’s Clock’, Joan’s ‘Love Letter to Travel’ and ‘My Other Life’, Neville’s ‘Gap Year’, Delfina’s ‘Sisters’, and James’ ‘Steep Learning Curve’ - and there may be more on the day.
The theme for October – ‘Life Challenges’ – the topics
‘If only … ‘ Write about an ‘if only’ moment in your life in 500 words, describing the context surrounding it as richly as you can. Choose something which won’t make you depressed, something you feel you have ‘dealt with’, but at the same time something which shares the impact of even a brief moment in your life.
‘This Too Shall Pass’ Write about a particularly difficult period of your life, how life went on and perhaps also the lessons you learnt from it...
If you have writer’s block, think about writing the topic as a poem, a standup comedy set, a script!
October is ‘Come and Try’ month, a chance for interested members and visitors to come along on Monday 20 October from 2 to 4pm to see what we do. Bring along and share your first ‘500 words’ story on an October topic, or just sit, listen and enjoy the day’s collection of stories.
Bev Lee
