[bksvol-discuss] Writer's Practice Group Meeting Announcement
- From: Mayrie ReNae <mrenae@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 02:12:56 -0800
Hello Everyone,
The next meeting of The Writer's Practice Group will be held on
January 2, 2008 in
the Friends of Bookshare Classroom at 6:00 P.M. Pacific Time, 7:00
P.M. Mountain Time, 8:00
P.M. Central Time, and 9:00 P.M. Eastern time. All would-be writers
are welcome. The link
to the classroom is:
Friends of Bookshare Class Room:
http://conference321.com/masteradmin/room.asp?id=rs0f1c528bd81b
Lastnight's meeting was a discussion of point of view. An audio
archive of that
discussion will be available on The Friends of Bookshare web site at:
http://www.friendsofbookshare.org
Below is a list of writing topics to spur you on in your daily
writing practice during the
next week. These topics are designed specifically to focus on
working with point of view.
I hope that you will bring one of the topics to the next meeting to
read aloud to the group.
If you are unable to read aloud, you may send me your chosen topic
in either txt or doc
format, and I will prepare it to post so that the group can read it
during the meeting.
Please send me your chosen topic no later than an hour and a half
before the meeting. My
e-mail address is:
mrenae@xxxxxxxxxxx
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.
Happy Writing!
Peace,
Mayrie
WRITING TOPICS FOR THE NEXT WEEK
Here are some topics to spur you on in your daily writing
practice during the next
week. Try writing each twice, from two different points of
view. For example, first
person, and then third person omniscient. Choose one pair of pieces
to bring to read aloud
during the next group meeting. Please remember to keep the pieces of
writing to something
that can be read aloud in five minutes or less. This works out to
about one-thousand words.
1. It's your 10-year high school reunion and, despite your
reservations, you decide to go.
The night is going smoothly, as you've managed to avoid
the three people you were dreading--the kid you bullied, the kid who
bullied you and the
prom date you ditched at the dance. Just as you're about to leave,
one of them confronts you. Write this scene. Try first writing the
sceen from your own
point of view, first person. Next, try writing it from the point of
view of one of the
other people mentioned, (also first person) or as a third person
omniscient narrator.
2. Your favorite possession has climbed to the top of the Empire
State Building and is
threatening to jump. Talk your beloved item out of jumping
by expressing your love and letting it know why it's so important to
you. Write this piece
first from your point of view, first person. Then try writing it from
the point of view of
your beloved object, either also as a first person narrative, or from
a third person
omniscient perspective. .
3. Your computer has met an untimely death and you've been asked to
say a few words in its
honor. Write a eulogy for your computer, remembering
the good times and the bad. Write this from your first person point
of view. Then write
from the point of view of your computer, also in first
person. Notice how the information,
attitudes, and perceptions that you convey from each point of view differ.
4. Write a 22-line poem (rhyming or nonrhyming) about the one thing
in your life that you
can't live without. If you choose to rhyme, remember to make the
number of syllables in
each line the same, keeping a consistent meter. Write first from the
first person point of
view, then from the third person omniscient point of view.
5. An ice storm has hit and the electricity has gone out. The odd
neighbor who lives a
couple houses down asks to spend the night--you have a working
fireplace, he does not. Deciding to be neighborly you agree. Around 3
a.m. you conclude you
made a very poor decision. Why? Write first from the third person
omniscient point of view,
then from the first person point of view either from your
perspective, or that of the
neighbour.
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