Page listing - "Subpage Listing"  Group Contact - Ronnie Puttock Telephone: 01208 872681 or 07786 261525 This very informal writing group would welcome new members. It meets on the last Tuesday of each month in Platform Meeting Room on Lostwithiel Station. Members write on an agreed topic and then share what they have written. Some examples of the group's work may be read on the blog  http://lostwithielu3awritersgroup.wordpress.com UPDATE: JANUARY 2020 MEETING Another full house for our first meeting of the year after our Christmas break. The topic was an opening phrase: "he/she opened his/her eyes..." It seemed to bring out a morbid streak in some of our writers. There were two drownings and other sad endings. For the next meeting we are choosing the Fowey Festival short story title - "Not After Midnight". Next meeting: Tuesday 25 February UPDATE: NOVEMBER 2019 MEETING We had a full turn-out this month. 10 people and ten stories. The stories ranged from foxes to an obese monk, a monster female, a son missing in action, a dreaded Christmas and lots more besides. Three are on the blog page. We will have a new member in January and we feel that the Group cannot accept any more members after that. There is simply not enough time to adequately discuss that number of stories in two hours. We will open a waiting list for prospective new members. Next meeting: Tuesday 28 January. The group left it to me to choose the topic. Fools! UPDATE: OCTOBER 2019 MEETING Unlike last month, we were rather thin on the ground this month due to members' prior engagements. Even so, we had a very lively meeting and welcomed a potential new member (the more the merrier!). There were only four stories and all of them are on the blog - one of them is very short. Two concern hospitals, one is an "unfinished business" not finished last month and the other is an early Christmas based tale. The topic for November is "Feast". It will be our last meeting until 2020. Next meeting: Tuesday 26 November UPDATE: SEPTEMBER 2019 MEETING We had nearly a full house for our first meeting after our summer break. The topic "Unfinished Business" produced five stories but lack of time and/or inspiration meant that four of us arrived empty handed - these things happen to all of us from time to time. Next month's topic is a story based around hospital: staff, patients, visitors, etc. However, I've made an 'executive decision' and extended the topic to writing about anything at all - maybe a sequel to a previous story or revisiting a previous topic. Three of the "Unfinished Business" stories are on the blog. Our next meeting is on Tuesday 29 October UPDATE: JULY 2019 MEETING Today, we held out last meeting before our summer break. Eight stories on the Bristol postmark topic were there to discuss and what a mixed bag they were. Themes ranged from gnomes (again) to astronauts via gay marriage and lost (and found) loves. There are three stories on the blog page. We now have two months to write about the next topic: "Unfinished Business". We meet again on Tuesday 24 September. UPDATE JUNE 26 2019 We've had two meetings since the last update. May was on "The Dinner Party" and the yesterday we held our June meeting when the topic was "Garden Ornament". A couple of stories on this topic can be seen on the blog page. The July meeting will take place on 30 July. The topic for that meeting has been taken from an article in the current "Third Age Matters" and is "it was postmarked Bristol". UPDATE APRIL 30 2019 It's been a very long time since I updated this page. Despite that, the group has grown in size and now numbers 10, when everyone can make it. Our next meeting will be today and the topic we have written on is "Gone Fishing". Stories submitted include one about Morgawr, another set in India and a ghost story; a veritable melange of ideas. It always surprises us how many different interpretations there can be on a topic. At the top of this page is a link to a Wordpress site where some of our stories can be read. This hasn't been updated for a long time. I will be more diligent in future, I will be more diligent in future, I will be more diligent............ And here I am after our meeting today. It went very well and was very enjoyable (unfortunately, the biscuits were left behind!). Two stories will be put on the blog page. The next meeting is on May 28 at 2 p.m. The topic that we have chosen is: The Dinner Party UPDATE DECEMBER 2018 The meeting scheduled for December 2018 falls on Christmas Day and will not take place. The first meeting planned for the new year is scheduled for 29th January 2019. Please contact Ronnie Puttock for more details. UPDATE JULY 2017 Although I haven't updated this site since December, the Group is still going strong with a rich variety of work produced and lively discussions every month. Our meetings for the rest of 2017 are: Tuesday 25 July (we don't meet in August) Tuesday 26 September Tuesday 31 October Tuesday 28 November (we don't meet in December) All are held at The Platform at 2 p.m. and last around 2 hours. NEWS
************ Read short stories by Creative Writing Group  Eleven By Six is a volume of eleven short stories by six members of the Creative Writing Group. Between its covers you'll find stories of adventure, history, humour, folk-lore and a hint of sex. The book can only be bought through Lulu.com and costs £6.49 (including postage). Ordering details here. This little book would make a marvellous stocking filler. UPDATE 8TH JULY 2016 The group has increased in size and meetings will now be held in Platform Meeting Room on Lostwithiel Station. Dates and times for the remainder of the year as follows:-
******************************************************************************************************************************** LOSTWITHIEL U3A WRITERS’ GROUP BLOG Here you will find some of the work produced by this group. This blog is intended to give you a flavour of our output and we hope that you will be encouraged to join the Group. New stories will (if I remember) be added each month but a selection of older stories will be added to the archive. Click on the link above to get access to the blog. This will take you to the Home page and all the stories that have been posted. Click on a month in the archive to get that particular month's postings. **************************************************************************************** 6 October 2015 I'm not very good at keeping this page up to date, am I? We have met every month (except for August when we took our annual break)since I last made an entry and also read out some of our work at the U3A meeting in July. We are a small group and would love to have more members. People have been put off joining us because they think they'll never be as good as us while others have been once but not again, probably because they think we're not professional enough. OK, so we may not want to be famous or even published authors but we do take our writing seriously. Not too seriously, though, that we can't learn from the critiques from our fellow members. Like the "fun" ukulele group, we want to improve but have fun doing it. If you heard our presentation at the U3A meeting or read our blog then you'll have come across some of our better stuff. If you don't think you can match that, then remember we only publicise our best work! Our next meeting will be on TUESDAY 27 OCTOBER at 2 p.m. The venue is undecided at the moment, but phone or email me at the above number/address. There's a selection of topoics to write about: Hallowe'en, (N)Ukulele Wars - or something to do with ukuleles! or on a topic of your own choice. In the meantime I've put a couple more stories on the blog. Please have a look. Ronnie Puttock *************************************************************************************************** 14 April 2015  It's a couple of weeks since our last meeting, so here's the belated write up of that meeting (which was held at the cafe in the Community Centre  -  nice tea; nice cake). The topic for March had been "Something Missing" and there were four contributions and the missing objects/persons were: a watch and chain; a bridegroom; a mermaid (at least it may have been one -  we can only surmise) and a peapod (yes, you read that right!) Our next meeting will be at the usual venue at the usual time (see above). There is no particular topic this month  -  it is an open subject and you can write about whatever you like. As well as discussing our contributions we will also choose which stories/pieces of writing to read out at the U3A AGM next month. There will be a selection of our shorter pieces and probably some of our very short (micro) fiction in a 15 - 20 minute slot. Ronnie Puttock **************************************************************** 17 February 2015 My apologies! Has it really been five months since I updated this page. Mea culpa! Mea maxima culpa! We had a meeting today  -  a week earlier than usual  -  because two of our members couldn't make the usual date which is the last Tuesday in the month. There were three submissions on the subject of "Fire". These, or a selection of them, will go on our blog page (see above) in due course. I will also post some of the stories we've produced since the last batch in July 2014. Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 31 March at 2 p.m. but not at our usual venue. We'll be meeting in the Community Centre cafe instead. The chosen topic is "something missing". The 'something' could be an object, a person, an animal, something in one's life, the point............... The group is still going strong, I'm pleased to say, and we are preparing to make a presentation by reading of some of our work at the U3A meeting in May. Ronnie Puttock ********************************************** |
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