November Theme & Meeting

The next meeting in Royal Botanic Gardens will be at 10:30am on Saturday 11th November. We expect to go to about 12:30pm.

We thought we'd try a theme based on an image this time. The image is shown below. You can view a larger version of it here.

The idea is to contemplate the image for a little while (perhaps do the relaxation exercises described by Catherine Fargher?). See what sort of overall or dominant impression comes to mind and use that to do a stream of consciousness or mind-map/clustering until some idea emerges that you want to write about. Then write your poem, story, essay, etc based on the inspiration you may have got this way.

Well that's just one approach - use whatever inspires you to write! It will be very interesting to see the different ideas the picture can evoke.

When you've revised or refined it, feel free to post it to the blog, and bring it along to the next meeting in the park.

By the way, the image is from the site ashes and snow, and the photograph by Gregory Colbert. Visit the site - it may inspire you all by itself!