The writing group will be taking a break at the end of August to enjoy some sun, sea and synonyms, meaning there will be no meeting on Tues 27 Aug.
The next session will be a fortnight after that, on Tues 10 Sept, when Erin will be running a workshop introducing Scrivener - a handy piece of software to help writers manage plotting, characterisation and all sorts of other things. We'll also have a discount code available for anyone who'd like to buy it.
Thursday, 22 August 2019
Wednesday, 21 August 2019
Bullet-Point Stories (ii)
At our last session we spent some time creating plot outlines using bullet points. The catch was that, rather taking the form 'A meets B in C and they go to L where they P', (thrilling though that sounds), each point had to be a piece of descriptive prose that somehow conveyed the essence of a scene or moment. Here's a great example entitled 'Now She'd Never Know' by writing group regular Yvonne Lloyd.
Monday, 12 August 2019
Next meeting: Tues 13 Aug - Bullet-Point Stories
Next meeting of the very-nearly-legendary Dalston Writing Group will be Tues 13 Aug, 6.00 to 7.30pm.
For this session we thought we'd return to a perennial favourite - flash fiction, but with a very specific rubric: sketching out an idea for a novel or short story in (approximately) 10 bullet-points. But wait! Hang on! There's more! Rather than using bald plot-points ('Lionel wakes up in a tent on a Carlisle roundabout and has no idea how he got there'), each development must be a piece of descriptive prose that somehow captures the essence of a scene. ('Light seeps through Lionel's closed eyes. He smells grass and petrol. He extends his only leg but his size is contained. Zimelda's door key is in his dirty hand.')
We have no idea what's going on with Lionel there, by the way. We hope he's alright.
Anyway, hopefully you get the idea.
Below is Jon's attempt to do exactly this for the Linking Libraries project, curated by artist Foster Spagge, more details of which will follow. (We know it's quite hard to read the actual words in this image. We'll do a print-out on Tues, in the unlikely event that it'll help. We'll also provide some prompts.)
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For this session we thought we'd return to a perennial favourite - flash fiction, but with a very specific rubric: sketching out an idea for a novel or short story in (approximately) 10 bullet-points. But wait! Hang on! There's more! Rather than using bald plot-points ('Lionel wakes up in a tent on a Carlisle roundabout and has no idea how he got there'), each development must be a piece of descriptive prose that somehow captures the essence of a scene. ('Light seeps through Lionel's closed eyes. He smells grass and petrol. He extends his only leg but his size is contained. Zimelda's door key is in his dirty hand.')
We have no idea what's going on with Lionel there, by the way. We hope he's alright.
Anyway, hopefully you get the idea.
Below is Jon's attempt to do exactly this for the Linking Libraries project, curated by artist Foster Spagge, more details of which will follow. (We know it's quite hard to read the actual words in this image. We'll do a print-out on Tues, in the unlikely event that it'll help. We'll also provide some prompts.)
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