A Fun Day
What shall I write today?
EREWASH WRITERS HAVE BEEN MEETING FOR TEN YEARS.
To mark this milestone - EREWASH WRITERS celebrated with an informal lunch on October 16th. The occasion was enjoyed by all.
Further festivitiews are underway for the Christmas season, as are workshops and competitions.
The workshop was well-attended and proved a great success, thanks to much good organisation on the part of our Secretary, Janet.
Judith Allnatt proved an effective and encouraging leader and drew out the best in everyone as they worked towards the framework for a a historical short story.
Many hints and tips were given on how to build up an historical background for a story, setting, period details and characterisation among them.
By the end of the session everyone had the framework for their own piece and a competition is now in progress, on a historical theme, which Judith will adjudicate.
It was a very full day but most enjoyable. John gave the vote of thanks.
On Saturday, 6th June 2009, Erewash Writers will be hosting another in their series of very successful workshops.
This one, led by author and poet, Judith Allnatt, will concentrate on how to write structured stories set in other eras. In this way, participants will look afresh at the interaction between character and context and how authors make past worlds come alive.
The workshop is already fully booked and a good day is anticipated by all.
Despite the pouring rain of a May morning, a party from Erewash Writers took off for Newstead Abbey, ancestral home of poet and freedom fighter Lord Byron.
The day offered the chance to see where Byron had lived and worked as well as memorabilia, documents and paintings relating to his time there.
The library was particularly fascinating, in a Victorian sort of way, and evoked much discussion. References to some of the scandals of Byron’s life were a revelation to some, touching as they did on incest, abandonment and free love. But hey, that’s the creative spirit for you.
Perhaps our visit will inspire the more poetic among us to greater heights of creativity, though not necessarily to greater lengths. It would be difficult indeed to match the epic scale of Byron’s poems but would we really want to?
Newstead Abbey, home of poet Lord Byron
Hello, out there! This is the start of Erewash Writers new blog. We’re a writing group from Derbyshire, England and we aim to get creative.
Our writers have pieces published in newspapers, magazines, even their own (and other people’s) publications. We’re also pretty good at winning writing competitions.
We write in many styles and genres, poetry, prose, fiction, fact and fantasy, crime but not punishment. We’re lyrical, humourous, down-to-earth, poignant or even completely off the wall . You name it – we’ll write it.
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