Creative Writers Group

I have joined a Creative Writers Group. Actually, we have just formed under the Victoria Park Library's aegis. The library collected names and preferred times, collated the results and threw nine names into the first Tuesday evening of the month slot. A rainy night, three called in regrets, two didn't show up, so the four of us looked at each other and wondered how a writers group was supposed to work.



The cast of characters: Melissa, an architectural drafter who wields a pen after hours. Jacqueline, former ESL teacher and an internationally published travel writer (we're all impressed, she isn't) who is tired of lots of work for little pay and is chucking it in for her first novel. Ceilin, a library science student who has all of her writings categorized & numbered in books. And me, short form writer with no delusions of making JK Rowling bucks with her 50 word scribblings. (Short form. Apparently only a term used by electronic media types. Those print guys, always in the middle of a 175,000 word novel when not paying the bills with police blotter or obscure magazine blather, have trouble with the phrase.)



Eventually we decided that we would do a mix of things. We will share some of our current or previous writing projects plus finish a writing 'assignment' for the next month. The assignment for October: Random Trash. That curbside bulk trash collection occurs this month in Victoria Park. We will be inspired by the roadside offerings of our neighbors and write from any perspective for no more than two pages. Two pages! Have I mentioned yet that I write short form pieces? I have promised not to print out my blog entry on the subject [Trash & Treasures, March 5, 2009] but will write something new. We are away!