At last night's WriteNight meeting at 15 Queen Street, we had an interesting challenge. Sue Dawes - one of our members - had organised a genre based activity, where a genre, object and location were pulled out of a hat. We then had to create a piece of writing based around that.
Our choices were:
Mystery ... Glass eye ... GP surgery
Romance ... Phonebook ... Luxury Spa
I chose the former and began a gruesome tale of murder most foul ... I have decided that the story has legs, so I am going to continue with it to see where it goes, although I have a number of ideas.
Everyone, who read out their work, came up with some pretty exciting ideas based on the few themes provided. As always, it was fun to see where people's minds took them. Amongst the offerings were a story about seeking an exotic love somewhere abroad, a spooky tale of a mysteriously discarded glass eye, an observational piece about the characters in a doctor's surgery, a romantic tale and an interesting take on romance, in which the lovers were brutally assaulted - the happy ending being the fact that they didn't die!
It was good fun and some fantastic work was produced. Looking forward to next time.
The next meeting is on Monday 8th October at 7.30 in 15 Queen Street
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