November 12, 2022
Homework
The topic is: "The archaelolgist moved closer ..."
And the 50-word piece is to include remedy, guardian, plunder sunshine.
October 8 2022
Homework
A 50 word paragraph including breath, strained, peppered, tenebrous, (which apparently means shadowy, or obscure.
A 500-700 word short story with subject: An imbroglio from which they
could not extricate themselves.
September 10, 2022
Matt will give a talk about on-line publishing.
Homework this month will have a strict limit of 700 words.
The topic is A Small Event or Remark Can Spark a Big Response.
And the 50-word piece is to include prism, undulation, endure, spring.
August 13, 2022
Homework
A 50 word piece, using the words Japanese, repaired, malice and epicurean.
A 300 to 500 essay or story about The White Queen.
July 9, 2022
At this gathering we will resume the usual format with a 30 minute tea break and $4 koha.
Homework
A 50 word piece, using the words memento, realm, dance and philistine.
And write a poem with rhyme and meter, telling a story. It can be as long as you wish.
June 11, 2022
Homework
A 50 word piece, incorporating the words malachite, smite, genius and lamp.
The 500 word piece will be a slight variation on our usual theme, as suggested by Dick. The 500 word piece must link four concepts together, including: a rabbit foot, a forest, the colour green (or any literary variation of this, e.g. ‘verdure’), and either remorse or regret.
May 14, 2022
Homework
A 50 word paragraph including nascent, tumultuous, fruit, compel.
A short story "A turning point in your life", fact or fiction, but preferably fact.
April 9, 2022
Homework
Four words for April meeting - moon, beneath, fireplace and yew.
500 word essay topic - "Don't Believe Everything You Hear".
February 12, 2022
Homework
Write exactly 50 words using: uncontrollable, solace, theory, mentor.
And write a 500 word essay on the topic: "The light that burns twice as bright, burns half as long."