As mentioned in my Daleks films at the Astor blog I’ve been trying to get out and about and socialise a little more after everything that’s been going on in my life. Meetup.com is part of that throwing oneself out into the world sort of thing as I’m really not a bar / club person. Well, I haven’t been for a really long time, so it may be that it becomes one of those things that I do do. Except I’m not a huge drinker, don’t like clubbing and generally find it all a little bit uncomfortable.
The Melbourne Social Writers Group is a group that meets weekly and monthly, I don’t go to the weekly meets because I can’t be arsed going up into the city on a weekday just for a meetup like that. The monthly ones I do go to. Well, I’ve been to for the past two months.
At the meetups there’s eating, chatting and then some writing games. Three to be precise. Game 1 is usually a half hour writing game where the organiser gives us a set of objects and or possibly a scenario plus a few objects and then we’ve got to write.
Game 2 is a shorter game of around 15 minutes and is a slightly more obscure game forcing you to write having an set point of view or possibly it’s a scenario created by a round table discussion each adding bits to the scenario.
Game 3 is a very quick story both in length (5 minutes) and in style, you have to write a fast paced story, again using a scenario, characters or setting that is provided.
I will probably post one or two of the stories I’ve written at these meetups in a mostly unaltered format. I’ll do some minor edits to them just to fix any spelling errors and other minor things like that. But I will hold myself back from doing any major edits or improvements for the first posting of the story so it’s there in raw form with along with the game scenario at the top.
The Melbourne Social Writers Group is a group that meets weekly and monthly, I don’t go to the weekly meets because I can’t be arsed going up into the city on a weekday just for a meetup like that. The monthly ones I do go to. Well, I’ve been to for the past two months.
At the meetups there’s eating, chatting and then some writing games. Three to be precise. Game 1 is usually a half hour writing game where the organiser gives us a set of objects and or possibly a scenario plus a few objects and then we’ve got to write.
Game 2 is a shorter game of around 15 minutes and is a slightly more obscure game forcing you to write having an set point of view or possibly it’s a scenario created by a round table discussion each adding bits to the scenario.
Game 3 is a very quick story both in length (5 minutes) and in style, you have to write a fast paced story, again using a scenario, characters or setting that is provided.
I will probably post one or two of the stories I’ve written at these meetups in a mostly unaltered format. I’ll do some minor edits to them just to fix any spelling errors and other minor things like that. But I will hold myself back from doing any major edits or improvements for the first posting of the story so it’s there in raw form with along with the game scenario at the top.