Minutes of Meeting on 13 February 2020 Venue: Neo's Sports Bar Pegeia

Present:

John Goodwin, Jennie Rook, Derek Whittle, Dee Leigh, Beryl Lowe, Caroline Harman Smith, Richard Powell, Michael White.

Apologies from June Megenis & Rich Palmer

Greetings Scribes,

A good meeting with plenty of discussion around character’s names.

Readings:

Derek: Based on last week’s homework: What’s In A Name? ‘Puntastic’ – a funny collection of Fish and Chip shop business names. This led to a discussion on curry house business names.

Beryl: Based on last week’s homework: What’s In A Name? This led to a discussion on naming children.

Dee: Based on last week’s homework: What’s In A Name? ‘Ozric’ – a historical piece

Caroline: ‘What is a parent’ – a letter of wise words to her daughter from 1996, giving advice from a parent to an expectant mother.

Coffee break: 11:00 – 11:30

Readings:

Mike: Based on last week’s homework: What’s In A Name? ‘Jeremiah Stinks’- a story of a boy who wanted to change his unfortunate name.

John: ‘Dogspell’ – a fantasy story with many descriptive names.

Character naming challenge:

Derek needed help from the group, with naming 3 of his characters for a story.

This week's writing prompt: ‘Toxic’

Write a story, article or poem in any genre, around 500 words, that has the theme of ‘toxic’.

Next meeting will be on: Thursday 20 February at Neo’s Sports Club.

Thanks to all who attended and happy writing.