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.
Tough Topics
Do your stories sometimes include hard or stormy topics, topics that can generate strong emotional responses, that can trigger strong emotion in your readers — positive or negative? Should we, as writers, avoid these topics or be brave and go forward? Writing about tough topics can make your writing feel more authentic but learning how to handle difficult topics in your writing can be a big challenge.
This is the topic under discussion on February 11th. Come join us! If you’re looking for more information about the Writers’ Nook, just contact us here.
The Handout
Please download the Handout for this meeting, and bring a copy of it with you to the meeting, either on paper or on your tablet or laptop.
The Challenge
Your challenge before our next meeting on February 25th is to tackle a sensitive or controversial topic; write a personal reflection, or write a story, fictional or nonfictional, a poem, an essay, newspaper article, or anything about a sensitive topic of your choice. If you would like to use a prompt, here are a few headlines in today’s news:
- ‘Death dealers’: Toxic-drug traffickers should face murder charges, victims’ families say
- ‘Welcome to Sen̓áḵw’: A sneak peek inside Canada’s largest Indigenous-led housing development
- A shadow war on libraries
- Friend calls for charges in date-rape drugging that hospitalized her and killed Victoria teen
- Trump’s threat to annex Canada ‘real’ and motivated by access to critical minerals, Trudeau tells crowd
- B.C. addictions doctor resigns after trying to set up overdose prevention site in Nanaimo
- Buffy Sainte-Marie’s Order of Canada terminated by Governor General
Or, if you prefer, send us anything else that you’d like to share.
Responses
(Members, please continue on down this page to see the area where we comment on one another’s Responses to our challenge. This is where we provide feedback to one another; one of the ways in which we learn from one other.)