Minutes of the meeting of 25/01/18

Venue: Neos Sports Club, Pegeia.

Present: John Goodwin, Richard Palmer, Beryl Lowe, Dee Leigh, Caroline Harman Smith and new member, Sian Williams.

Greetings scribes, the weather may have resulted in a few members staying warm and cosy in bed but it did not dampen the spirit of those who attended. Some interesting stories were put forward from last week’s homework subject of, 'write a review of your favourite or worst book you have read'.

Readings:

Sian story My favourite book

Caroline story A book is forever

John Review “Final Breath” by one of our members, Robert Barker.

Both the book and review are available on Amazon.co.uk

Dee Review “Jayne Eyre” by Charlotte Brontë

Coffee break 11.0.am to 11.15.am

John gave us an exercise on protagonists and antagonists:

List as many traits as possible. Followed by a discussion on creating characters

Readings continued:

Rich story Toby the Roadie

Rich would like to thank members for the excellent feedback.

Homework: Using a list containing about half a dozen protagonists / antagonists character traits, start to develop a story that portrays them,without actually stating them.

Next meeting Thursday 3rd, February at Neos.

Thanks to all who attended. Rich Palmer, secretary.