Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Meeting Minutes August 22 2010

Hello fellow Guildians. For those of you who are not aware, we now have a site on Facebook! Thank you to Richard for setting it up. He has sent the user address and password to anyone who wishes to make comments or post things.

Our meeting was a bit smaller than usual, but we still had ten people in attendance. And, more importantly, we had cake!

We did not discuss the anthology since Gloria was away.

Marilyn read from an article she wrote in Physicians Guide for Travel and Meetings, Summer 1986 and commented on how far her writing has come since then. She used to own a wholesale travel company and has written techical books, novels, articles and a health book. Impressive resume!

We do have a writing workshop on October 2 with Brian Henry. The course is on Writing for Children. Please contact Nancy if you would like to attend. She will collect money and let Brian know who is coming. Or you can peruse The Quick Brown Fox online and contact Brian yourself.

Glen saw Harry performing in front of the Zencha Tea Bar in Collingwood and brought back a handful of pamphlets regarding Word Stock in Collingwood. This event takes place Sept 10-11 and you can learn more about it on http://www.wordstockcollingwood.com/. Our own Harry Posner will be there live!

Nancy recommended sci-fi author Robert J. Sawyer to Ashley, who read a very interesting piece from her novel. She said he was a great writer and had a fantastic website.

Kelli announced that she has a blog! Yeah, Kelli! So does Jenn and Diane. I'll dig up all the blog addresses and post them later.

Judy was about to give us our assignments when we had promptus interuptus - Nancy brought out birthday cake. Judy celebrated a milestone birthday in July, but has been away all month.

Pat mentioned that Sandy has not been at meetings lately because her brother passed away a couple of months ago. Anyone who would like to send their condolences can contact Sandy (our singing storyteller) at: sandra (dot)dedrick (at) yahoo (dot) ca.

The Prompts:
1) He suggested they should all live together in the same house.
2) "But darling, you're too old to get another man."
3) "You and I will always be together, one way or another."
4) "Whenever she cheated on him it took him two weeks to settle into a good temper again."
5) She was Tiffany's best friend, but never guessed that Tiffany's mother and "aunties" were prostitutes, and their cheerful white clapboard home with the red trim, was a brothel.
6) She would make lists of the facts of her life, so that when she read them back to herself, she wouldn't feel so small - at least to herself.
7) She threw down her heavy leather handbag, and continued the inspection tour of his apartment.
8) "Don't get into any more impossible marriages," she said, "I need a rest."
9) "You three-minute egg! You runny, puny, twelve-weeks-old, three-minute egg. You're underdone and overripe. What do you know?"
10) My mother had five cats, nine children and three husbands.
11) He tied a rope to the bag, and lowered it carefully from the window in the back bedrom of his brother's house into the darkness below.
12) He was lonesome, and he wanted somebody to love - somebody to say "That's all right" when the world treated him mean.
13) After his parents' divorce, he was sent to live with his maternal grandmother.

The funny thing about these prompts, was that all but two were used by the group in this meeting. For the record, it was #5 and #9.
We broke off at 3:30pm to eat more cake and chat.

Our next meeting is Sept 12, 2010.
I will not be there, nor will Nancy whose birthday is Sept 13. I know I'm early but Happy Birthday, Nancy!
Enjoy the rest of your summer!

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