The session went really well tonight, especially the impressive pace of improvisation, with people really thinking on their feet. We began with the intro game as usual and the stories were great, for instance with people saying they were from California or Australia; they were princesses; they have sung rude words in front of the queen (which surprisingly was actually true!); and they were experimenting with making snow out of carrots! As you can imagine the laughter was alr

Lots of laughs again tonight, especially when Jeff told us what he’d chosen for our themed poems this week: Licking envelopes!! It brought forth some great pieces though with lovely descriptions that helped us to really conjure up a picture. Then we had the very clever link to the phrase ‘pushing the envelope’ (pushing boundaries). The exercise was very difficult tonight, ‘Ventrilloquy’ pushed participants to bring dialogue, dialect and individual conversational characteris

We had another lovely meeting tonight. Our sessions aren’t work based at all, they are just a good opportunity for us to get together, make new friends and share what we’ve written. The sharing has come as quite a surprise to me since I believed that journal writers were solitary souls who wrote in complete isolation. Well, I couldn’t have been more mistaken because we’re all thoroughly enjoying each other’s stories. The readings tonight have certainly sparked off some ver

We had such a giggle again last night. I was delighted to see so many participants, fourteen in total, what a turn out! We began with our introductions, which as usual could be real or completely fake. Some of the imagined ‘facts’, such as people being able to fly (but only on every other Thursday) were a little more obvious than others, haha. The first game involved three players, who were in a video conference setting, they had to improvise the scene with me interjecting

IT’S SO EXCITING!! Here’s the first glimpse of our Pottery Patchwork Project getting underway. First Gill created outline shapes of the pitcher panels on paper and then drew the individual jigsaw piece templates. She then used these to cut out the clay shapes which are now sitting on temporary shelves while they dry out – and taking up half of poor Gill’s house in the process. It won’t be long now before these pieces can go out to people in the community for decoration (adhe

Poetry workshop write-up 07 21/01/2021. I think the best way to sum up this week’s workshop is to quote Jeff: “Everybody was ‘on form’ – some people have been eating vitamins over Christmas!” It really was an incredible session which left us all buzzing! We started fifteen minutes early tonight, as we decided this would be a good way to prevent us from running over time – which failed miserably, haha, but only because people wanted to stay on and chat about how well everyone

20th January 2021. It was lovely to welcome another new member to our group last night. I have to say I’m really pleased that we decided to meet up each week because it felt really good to get together and re-connect. We all had a good chat and shared what we had been writing during the week, allowing our ideas to spark off each other and ignite into what I’m sure will be another lovely set of journal entries. As I sat there listening to the readings I was impressed by peopl

It was so great to get started with our Isolated Improv. workshops last night. As well as our Par Bay contingent, we were delighted to welcome participants from Penryn and also from as far afield as Pudsey all the way up in Leeds, so as you can imagine the introductions were extremely interesting. We started with the questions game, where every answer must be a question, otherwise you’re OUT and your mic goes off. Surprisingly we managed to keep this going for quite a while

This week one or our wonderful writers has also donated a wooden door-frame cat to residents of Trecarrel. It’s a beautiful marmalade cat that fits neatly above any door and I’m sure that it will be very loved and appreciated, especially by those who are perhaps missing a cat from their own home. I’m also delighted to welcome some Sue and Pam to our group: two lovely ladies from our local area who have signed up to correspond with each other. It will be great to see these con

I was thrilled to finally get journal writers together for our first Zoom meeting last night. It was intended to be a very quick get together just so that we could collaborate and discuss our ideas about how to present this strand of the project. I’m really glad we did this because what our participants intend to do far outreaches anything I originally hoped for. I had previously been concerned about putting too much pressure on individuals if I asked for large amounts of