Hi all,
It’s about time we had another workshop. I suggest mid/late September. What do you think?
Narelle
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September meeting
Posted in Weekly writing sessions on September 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
May meeting: Saturday 24th, 4pm, Okini
Posted in Weekly writing sessions on May 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Where: Okini is a tiny little Japanese tea salon just around the corner from Midica at Esquirol. There’s no mobile reception in the salon as it’s underground, so try not to be late
Address: 19, rue des Tourneurs, 31000, TOULOUSE
What to bring: Pen, paper, a finished poem, piece of prose or do one of [...]
Posted in Weekly writing sessions on March 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Our next meeting will be held at an art gallery within a museum, followed by afternoon tea and writing — either there or at a nearby cafe.
Details as follows:
Where: Bemberg Museum at Hotel d’Azzezat, Toulouse
When: Saturday, April 5th, 2pm – 5pm.
What: The outing will be completely free, funded by last
year’s kitty money, and [...]
Saturday, 26th January, 10am – 12pm
Posted in Weekly writing sessions on January 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Meet us near the bar in the Crowne Plaza this month for the first workshop of 2008.
Bring a pen, notebook and a piece of poetry or an excerpt from a story you’ve written (maximum 400 words) to share with the group.
See you soon!
Details
Posted in Weekly writing sessions on June 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Well, it seems I’ve fallen a little behind in the posting and need to catch up on the last two weeks’ sessions since I believe tomorrow will be our last session for the summer. We should be picking things up again in September following ‘la rentrée’, hopefully full of inspiration and with some new members [...]
New venue for Toulouse Writers’ Group
Posted in Weekly writing sessions on June 12, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Important: As of last week, our new meeting place is Le Bibent on Place du Capitole. We’re still meeting at 4.30pm as usual.
Location, location, location
Posted in Weekly writing sessions, Writing practice on May 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Today’s host: Narelle
It was around 30 degrees celcius and perfectly sunny this afternoon — one of the nicest days we’d had in weeks!
Chris, Natasha, Valerie and I arranged to meet at Prairie des Filtres, the park on the other side of the Pont Neuf which borders the Garonne river.
We settled on a wooden bench below [...]
Point of View
Posted in Weekly writing sessions on May 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
For today’s session, I wanted to concentrate on point of view. One of the most difficult things when starting off a new story can be finding the right voice, the best way to make a story work. I find that I often move from a first person narrator to a third person narrator right in [...]
A character’s voice
Posted in Weekly writing sessions on May 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
9th May
Today’s group was attended by Narelle, Saskia, newcomer Chris, and myself (Laura B). I was hosting my last group for a while since I am off to Scotland this weekend (sniff, sniff) but hope to be joining in over the internet.
To start we did a couple of warm-up exercises for 10 minutes [...]
Wednesday May 2nd
Posted in Weekly writing sessions on May 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Due to a last-minute change of plans, today’s writers’ workshop will again be hosted by Narelle.
In this week’s session:
Warmup
Remembering the rules for writing practice, do your first 10-minute exercise beginning with ‘I am…’
Now rest for 2 minutes. Don’t talk. Get up and walk around. Clear your mind.
Now come back and do the second 10-minute exercise [...]
