ThoughtTree Workshop 30/08/2019

August 2019  ThoughTree Writing Workshop: Why We Need to Tell Stories!  Literary theorists apply a ‘literary Darwinism’ to explore the reasons why humans are driven to tell each other stories. Think of the famous cave paintings of Lascaux in France, depicting apparent hunting scenes – we can only imagine the animated campfire stories being told […]

My Christmas Story – an obvious adaptation

An intense energy had welled and swirled within the spirit entity since he had entered through the gloomy portal of the house. This house of malevolence, born of greed and selfishness. There were enough rooms for five whole families to live a life of secluded comfort in. AND yet, true to form, only two rooms […]

A task @ Christmas

Christmas and New Year – December Task [taken from our textbook – these are our guide for November about what to write about for the December meeting] There is always a big demand for Christmas stories as many magazines have festive specials as well as their regular issues. As with any seasonal story, it’s important to […]

friendship is “What is”

I had been in the office at work that afternoon. I liked to step in and chat to the admin girl. She is tall, blonde, willowy figured, has a lovely smile and a big hearted personality. To me she is an attractive child. A third my age. We sit, we chat, its all such light […]

and finally ronnie

and finally ronnie, this post see’s the coming together of a plan. Like a lot of plans it wasn’t a plan at all in the beggining. It was just a thought. from Thought emerged, like a butterfly from an unsavourary looking catterpillar, a plan which uses links on Facebook to a blog which teaches Sydney […]