told B - another refugee worker - very good telling & response... much encouragement... more thoughts on how to keep the final kicker a surprise...
then told another B - artist - while he was performing his end of the day packing up... which wasn't such a good telling... i didn't have his full attention...
so i decided i was probably through with telling... on to the writing...
but i went to a writing group last night & whilst i didn't have anything to read i did tell it to the organiser of the group over a beer later... actually i had 2 listeners - we were all quite drunk - 2 C's...
i got a good response... although at the beginning T from the bookshop was there & that made it a little difficult... also male C has written a novel recently - is working on the 2nd draft & has an agent... so he was very much in "sell it to me" mode... which i'm not quite ready for...
C put a structure on it that may or may not fit it... i found it a little like teaching... many people will tell you that you need to know what you're aim is in a lesson, be very clear in your own mind what you're getting across - & what is most important - i follow this in my teaching but i also like the stumbling, getting there in one's own time approach...
C seemed to be saying i need to know what my aim is... what's most important? quite possibly all good advice & relevant... but i'm not there yet...
female C listened well & asked a some good questions... we chatted a bit afterwards, walking homewards...
so i will be going back to the writing group i think - i have 2 weeks... in that time i want to have written something to read...
and then storybook... it's an open source writing thing... uses databases to track characters, locations, scenes... i've started using it... i've mapped out all or most of the events that i currently know about in it... i haven't yet decided which order to put all those events, but i can do that within storybook...
it might be yet more displacement activity - but i find it useful right now x
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