Craft Chat Write Club South - Metaphors, Similes and word pictures

[RK Wallis]

Hey all,

Anyone up for a craft meet this Wednesday?
-> 4.30pm Singapore, 7.30pm Sydney (DLS starts 5 April), 9.30am UK (DLS started 29 March)

Sorry for the short notice. I wasn't sure if Huddle South was meeting, and looks like it isn't.

We've got a craft exercise from James Scott Bell on voice.

@Aethalope
@Sedayne
@LJ Beck

Anyone else who wants to join let me know, and I'll include you in the private thread.

Rachel

 

[Aethalope]

Yay, imagery!

I'll be there. Though the time (for me at least) needs to be this:

3.30pm Singapore (never has any daylight savings time because we have a daylight surplus), 7.30pm Sydney (DLS starts 5 April), 8.30am UK (DLS started 29 March)

I'll be on the Zoom starting 3.00pm Singapore, 7.00pm Sydney, 8.00am UK in case @Sedayne is coming and needs to leave early

@wrightstuff and maybe @tyes fancy joining in? Rachel's got a cracking exercise lined up

 

[tyes]

Yes please!

@wrightstuff and maybe @tyes fancy joining in?

 

[RK Wallis]

Yay, imagery!

I'll be there. Though the time (for me at least) needs to be this:

3.30pm Singapore (never has any daylight savings time because we have a daylight surplus), 7.30pm Sydney (DLS starts 5 April), 8.30am UK (DLS started 29 March)

I'll be on the Zoom starting 3.00pm Singapore, 7.00pm Sydney, 8.00am UK in case @Sedayne is coming and needs to leave early

@wrightstuff and maybe @tyes fancy joining in? Rachel's got a cracking exercise lined up

Oh, sorry, I totally balsed up the times!

 

[Sedayne]

Looks like it's Huddle South this week. Shall we do this next week?

 

[wrightstuff]

I was out of town last week - sorry I didn't let you know.

 

[Aethalope]

Yep

All the more time to work on the prompt...

 

[LJ Beck]

Thanks for letting us know Huddle South is on. I wouldn't have known otherwise. I find it very hard to find the notices. I ended up searching "Huddle South" to find it.

See you then.

 

[tyes]

Even though this is delayed, where do i find the writing excercise? (Or will there be another thread created)?

 

[RK Wallis]

Hey Steve,

It's a private thread in The Lab, and I included you yesterday, so please let me know if you can't see it This is it:

https://colony.litopia.com/threads/write-club-south-metaphors-similes-and-word-pictures.17081/

Cheers
Rachel

 

[Pamela Jo]

Hi RK could I be included in the exercise. It looks cool.

 

[Aethalope]

Calling @RK Wallis @LJ Beck @Sedayne @tyes @wrightstuff @Pamela Jo and anyone else who's game!

I'm up for a Write Club South this Wednesday if you are. Rachel's mouth-watering exercise is simply begging to be tackled.
Huddle South time, so 3.00pm Singapore, 8.00pm Sydney (Have I got the DLS right?), 8.00am UK.

 

[tyes]

I’ll be there. Need to buy a dictionary though…

 

[Pamela Jo]

So write club meets every Wednesday? Is it possible to be included? I'm sorry I missed the exercise from Rachel. Is there more or am I just clueless?

 

[Aethalope]

So write club meets every Wednesday? Is it possible to be included? I'm sorry I missed the exercise from Rachel. Is there more or am I just clueless?

Meets every Wednesday if there isn't a huddle south. I'll set up a zoom meeting and put the link in this thread, hopefully my technical skills are up to the challenge.

Here's the the exercises outline, so the steps that you need to do.

Expanding Your Range

To grow in the use of metaphors, similes, and word pictures, exercise the visual part of your imagination. Here are a few ways to do that.

1. Open a dictionary at random and select the first noun you see.
2. Describe that thing four ways: sight, touch, smell, sound.
3. Make a list of ten other things that noun is like.
4. If you were describing this thing to a Martian who had never seen one, how would you do it?
5. Write a short scene where the Lead character in your current work-in-progress is in a state of high emotion, and notices the noun. How would she describe it at that moment in time?
6. Mash up clichés. When your mind hands you a cliché, don’t avoid it. Write it down and then play around with it. Can you change it up? Freshen it? Find another way to say it? In one of his stories Harlan Ellison described a character as looking like “a million bucks tax free.”

Bell, James Scott. VOICE: The Secret Power of Great Writing (Bell on Writing) (pp. 49-54). Compendium Press. Kindle Edition

 

[RK Wallis]

I’ll be there. Need to buy a dictionary though…

Same problem. i might have to skip that one.

 

[Aethalope]

I have many dictionaries at work.... I can see what nouns turn up tomorrow

 

[Sedayne]

I've only got the Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors - lots of abstract nouns that don't work for this exercise. The first one I landed on was meltdown
Let's try that again...

 

[Sedayne]

Ooh, look what I just found!
1992 pocket edition - if you've got big pockets.
Let me know if you want me to open it at random for you.

 

[Sedayne]

I've had fun with this exercise and posted the result in the private thread in the Lab (where it's not accessible to Joe Public).
See you all on Weds x

 

[RK Wallis]

Ooh, look what I just found!
1992 pocket edition - if you've got big pockets.
Let me know if you want me to open it at random for you.
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yes please, in the private thread

 

[RK Wallis]

So write club meets every Wednesday? Is it possible to be included? I'm sorry I missed the exercise from Rachel. Is there more or am I just clueless?

The link's here...

https://colony.litopia.com/threads/...-similes-and-word-pictures.17081/#post-183820