The Writers’ Nook is a place where we, as a group, can provide a safe and positive environment in which to encourage one another and hone our own writing skills.
Our Theme for this meeting is Character’s Development using Dialogue. Download the handout for this meeting, which includes examples provided at the meeting as well as the next Challenge. Please send me a pdf copy of your submission as soon as you can so I can post it before New Year’s Day. This will give our members an opportunity to read it before they come to the following meeting, on January 14th, prepared to discuss.
OUR WRITINGS to be submitted before Tuesday, November 19th.
Our challenge: Most recently, we have twice been given the challenges of creating a character, complete with physical and non-physical characteristics. We’ve also written their backstories. Since we now know these two characters so well, we know what they will do in any given situation. Our challenge is to put them into a situation and write a dialogue scene between the two of them. Be sure that the dialogue helps us, the readers, understand their character — aka character development in the mind of the reader. (If you haven’t already created two different characters, please do so before you continue.)
PREVIOUS MEETING: November 12
Our Theme for this meeting was Character Development, including their Backstory.
Our challenge for this meeting was to develop and write a description of an interesting introduction to a character. Also, include a BACKSTORY for this character. Alternatively, find a description of a character that you’ve enjoyed reading in a book and share it with us. Use your imagination to create a BACKSTORY for them and send it along.
ALTERNATIVELY send in anything that you’ve written and would like to share with the group.
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OUR Responses:
Ophelia Barnes Shirley DeKelver’s response to the Challenge
Rascal Jack’s Christmas Dinner Joyce Adrian Sotski’s response to the Challenge
Timmy Dulcie Enns’s response to the Challenge
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The special meeting: The book that we plan to discuss will be a bookclub style meeting. The book that we plan to discuss is, Medicine Walk by Richard Waganese. You can borrow a copy from the library, buy a used copy at a second hand bookstore, or borrow a copy from a friend.
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