Minutes of the meeting 29 March 2018 Venue Neo's Sports Club Pegeia

Present: John Goodwin, Rich Palmer, Jordi Guri, Dee Leigh, Paul Trebess, June Megennis, Charles Hadaad, Michael White.

John started the meeting with a presentation on Narrative Mode.

Narrative point of view in the creative writing describes the narrator's position in relation to the story being told. In this case we discussed First Person POV.

Notes available in Tutorials on P.W.G website.

Readings:

June Extract My memoirs

Discussion on writing memoirs as a fictional account (Autobiographical Fiction).

Also, the requirement for submitting copies to the British library on publication.

Further readings:

Michael story Just in time

Rich poem Well tackled

Jordi story Landing in Ithaca

Coffee break: 11.0.am to 11.15am

John G Article The present

Paul story Look up to the stars

Michael story Digging holes

Rich poem Morning Glory

This week’s challenge: Write in first person, present tense try to keep to 500 words.

Writing Prompt: 'OUT OF THE ORDINARY'

Thanks to all who attended, next meeting Thursday 5th, April at Neo's as usual.