Creative Writing Club Round-Up #2: 06/12/2013

Hey guys! We were a bit low on numbers for CWC this week as ShoeLobber, DisneyLoverMolly and Cap. were all missing. This left ANT, Master and myself to hold up the fort, but there was plenty of fun to be had...

As Master's salad has featured before on the main blog, it seems only right to mention the dramatic change in its composition that shocked the club: the addition of broccoli!! Master made it quite clear that the broccoli was unwelcome, criticising it for being 'all texture and no taste'. Even ANT had a taste which prompted the quote of the session: 'it tastes of health'. Who'd have known broccoli could cause such a stir?

When we calmed down after that vegetable episode, it was time for Master and ANT to read and critique my 100 word story inspired by the Little Mermaid. It was gorier than they expected, but the main problem was that I was 1 word over the word count! Obviously this can't be permitted to enter a competition and many alterations were suggested, but I think the favourite was making 'pulsatingtorrent' a new word, thank you ANT for that.

It was actually the word 'torrent' that ANT had the biggest issue with. She associated it with video piracy but I was using it in the sense of water. Research into the dictionary definition proved that it could be used in the context I was using it in but ANT was correct in associating it with video piracy (which we all steer well clear of). For anyone interested, the online dictionary gives the first definition of torrent as 'a stream of water flowing with great rapidity and violence.'

Finally, with the closing date of the 100 word story competition drawing closer, we have a new competition to pursue for February so we'll never be at a loss for something to do but more about that next time.

Hmmm, amidst all the excitement I wonder if anyone else spotted that not much writing was done this week...

My book related quote of the week is from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Maybe Xander spent too much time researching demons and not enough doing his English: 

Jenny: You kids really dig the library, don't you?  

Buffy: We're literary.  

Xander: To read makes our speaking English good.