| Status: | Active, open to new members |
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| Group email: | Creative Writing group |
| When: | Monthly on Thursday afternoons 2:00pm-4:00pm 1st Thursday. Meet September to November and February to June |
| Cost: | £2.00 each meeting |
The purpose of this group is to help members achieve their ambition, whether that is writing for pleasure or something more ambitious. The themes and genres are agreed by the group. On occasions we have a visiting author who will share their experience of writing and publication.
Members bring up to 1000 words of something they have written in any genre, to share with the group and gain feedback.
Writing can be in any format including prose, short story, poems, chapters of novels, memoirs, plays, non-fiction etc.
Group members do not have to give handouts of their writing unless they are requested to do so.
Image creditL Leticia Roncero 2016 'afternoon reads'. Flickr CC licence
Writing memorable characters
A story, whether fiction or creative non-fiction, would be dull without characters who jump off the page and enter our psyche. Characters, whether protagonist or antagonist, with compelling traits who catch our imagination and transport us into a world of intrigue, excitement, terror, love, hate and compassion. Characters who toil with our emotions bringing us joy, laughter, grief, anger and many more feelings.
At our recent Creative Writing Group meeting, we discussed building memorable characters. Each member chose a character from an envelope containing fiction, non-fiction and even the notorious.
From a box of props, they chose outfits that depicted their character and dressed accordingly. The rest of the group then guessed who each character was.
The photograph you are looking at was taken with our members, ‘in character’. A first-class survivor from the Titanic, James Bond, Mary Poppins, Shirlock Holmes, ARP from Dads Army, Poirot, The Invisible Man and others, which I leave to your imagination.
Samantha Ridgway, BA.
