ACCUSABLY, ANACHRONISTIC, AND TWO SCHEMING UNCLES BOATING TO THE BEAT
As you can see, Wednesday’s Meeting was full of tongue twisting pronunciations of words and phrases. Lots of fun with Jason, Luke, Charity, Annette, and new member, Kay Jordan, joining me here.
Charity read first, the next chapter in “Trixie Trouble”. We see Gravedigger and Donovan square off to fight. After a faulty start, Donovan comes back to win the match and Trixie is faced with losing a lot of money she didn’t have. This was a great chapter documenting the fight, very vivid.
Dressed in costume that she wears for SCA, the Society for Creative Anachronism, Annette stood up to deliver a tale about three different stories of how the Selkie Folk came to be. Then she sang us a ballad, The Skye Boat Song. This was an amazing performance and we didn’t even have to pay for front row seats! Bravo, Annette, Bravo!
I read the next story, “It Was Time” from my Honey collection. This was about an outing with Honey up at Green Lake that had me struggling from the lakeshore up a winding track on a steep hillside in pursuit of the Lodge at Little Horse, and the subsequent stop of my trek at a cattle guard I couldn’t cross with my wobbly legs and two branches used as walking sticks. That was when I decided to take my cane with me whenever I went out with Honey.
Charity asked if I had submitted the story I read last time to Polar Expressions yet. I spent some time re-writing the ending and the story is ready to submit, but I still have to write a short author’s bio to go with the submission, as required. The deadline isn’t until July anyhow, if anyone else wants to submit a short story of 750 words or less.
Jason read his next chapter that shows us the appearance of the Nobella, Kwen’s and Tiber’s spiritual leaders. One of them, Bealunwit, knows who Damianos is, and it appears they are enemies. He threatens Damianos with a knife. Meanwhile, Tiber takes the mythical coin and hides it, though Kwen saw him do it. The plot thickens. And it was Jason who used the word ‘accusably’, which I erroneously questioned. It’s a synonym for ‘guiltily’.
Luke read the next scene where Dalin is waiting for the return of Sgt. Torch. While waiting, he runs the troops through battle training. When Torch returns, the Commander and Captain are with her and ask Dalin how he came to know so much about their strategy because there seems to be a leak of info as the enemy always seems to pre-empt their movements. They ask him where the hole in their strategy seems to be.
Kay told us she is working on a humorous skit where a wife is admitting her guilt to a crime of infidelity, which happened to be her eating her husband’s dessert. Kay said she likes comedy and wants to write in that genre.
At the end of the Meeting, I confessed I had been playing on my computer with a plot generator app. I filled in a detailed questionnaire, clicked the button, and the app spewed out a short story, which I read to the group. It was very nonsensical and had us all laughing. The things we will do to postpone our own writing! But maybe I can get a story of my own out of the two scheming uncles boating to the beat?
Margaret F. emailed me to say she was away in Tofino this week. Hope she’s having fun.
The next Meeting will be Wednesday, June 1st at 7:00 p.m. here at my place. I look forward to seeing you then.
Lisa A. Hatton
Author
Friday, May 20, 2016
Saturday, May 7, 2016
THE REVIEW
Re-Writing Class
Charity, Luke, Annette and Jason all joined me Wednesday for our latest Meeting. We started with Charity giving us a demonstration on her laptop of how she uses different MS Word features to supply a list of chapters and scenes and comments that she can use as an outline to find something specific she wants to look at in her manuscript. Luke says he uses Scrivener story writing software. I write an outline manually as I go along, since I like to use the printed page when I edit, rather than the computer. We guess it all boils down to what works best for each writer. But I will spend some time working with the ideas for MS Word. Jason didn’t say what he would like to try, even though he did say trying to remember everything in his head wasn’t working. And we can all relate to that problem.
We did the blind voting for a prize from the box for best writing from the last Meeting and Charity was the winner for her chapter from “Trixie Trouble”.
I read first, a re-write of the story I had read last time. I changed names and places of characters’ origins, and did the storyline inside the framework of a police interview. It is approximately 730 words long, so I will enter it in the Polar Expressions contest/anthology this year.
Luke read us a chapter about the soldier, Dalin, and an encounter he has with his immediate superior. Dalin tries unsuccessfully to convince the other soldier that there is something terribly wrong with the army’s plan to extricate itself from a tight situation. Dalin then talks the female soldier, Sgt. Torch, into telling another officer for him as he is forbidden to do so himself.
Jason read us the next chapter where Tiber is still browbeating Kwen, and threatening to turn her in for stealing the mystical coin. And Damianos is still suffering excruciating pain, but deep inside hears a voice that gives him hope. At the end of the chapter he hears the voice of his stolen sister calling his name.
Charity read the next chapter in “Trixie Trouble”. At the bar she runs into Brett Marley, who makes sexual suggestions. She plays along briefly, but doesn’t give in. She then goes to make her bet on the boxer Grave Digger, asking who will be his challenger in the ring. That’s when she sees the preacher’s son get in the ring as the other contestant.
Both Jason and Charity are very good at ending each chapter with a hook that leaves the reader wanting to keep turning pages to see what happens next.
Annette didn’t read anything, but gave us hints on what the story she read last time would contain going forward.
The next Meeting will be Wednesday, May 18th at 7:00 p.m. here at my place. Again, bring your vote for best piece of writing from this last Meeting. I do look forward to seeing you all next time and wish you successful writing in the meantime.
Lisa A. Hatton
Author
Charity, Luke, Annette and Jason all joined me Wednesday for our latest Meeting. We started with Charity giving us a demonstration on her laptop of how she uses different MS Word features to supply a list of chapters and scenes and comments that she can use as an outline to find something specific she wants to look at in her manuscript. Luke says he uses Scrivener story writing software. I write an outline manually as I go along, since I like to use the printed page when I edit, rather than the computer. We guess it all boils down to what works best for each writer. But I will spend some time working with the ideas for MS Word. Jason didn’t say what he would like to try, even though he did say trying to remember everything in his head wasn’t working. And we can all relate to that problem.
We did the blind voting for a prize from the box for best writing from the last Meeting and Charity was the winner for her chapter from “Trixie Trouble”.
I read first, a re-write of the story I had read last time. I changed names and places of characters’ origins, and did the storyline inside the framework of a police interview. It is approximately 730 words long, so I will enter it in the Polar Expressions contest/anthology this year.
Luke read us a chapter about the soldier, Dalin, and an encounter he has with his immediate superior. Dalin tries unsuccessfully to convince the other soldier that there is something terribly wrong with the army’s plan to extricate itself from a tight situation. Dalin then talks the female soldier, Sgt. Torch, into telling another officer for him as he is forbidden to do so himself.
Jason read us the next chapter where Tiber is still browbeating Kwen, and threatening to turn her in for stealing the mystical coin. And Damianos is still suffering excruciating pain, but deep inside hears a voice that gives him hope. At the end of the chapter he hears the voice of his stolen sister calling his name.
Charity read the next chapter in “Trixie Trouble”. At the bar she runs into Brett Marley, who makes sexual suggestions. She plays along briefly, but doesn’t give in. She then goes to make her bet on the boxer Grave Digger, asking who will be his challenger in the ring. That’s when she sees the preacher’s son get in the ring as the other contestant.
Both Jason and Charity are very good at ending each chapter with a hook that leaves the reader wanting to keep turning pages to see what happens next.
Annette didn’t read anything, but gave us hints on what the story she read last time would contain going forward.
The next Meeting will be Wednesday, May 18th at 7:00 p.m. here at my place. Again, bring your vote for best piece of writing from this last Meeting. I do look forward to seeing you all next time and wish you successful writing in the meantime.
Lisa A. Hatton
Author
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