Changes: (tentative)

1.Every month to follow a theme of writing exploring famous works, having writing exercises and writing their own stories

1.Monthly Publication of collated works done during the sessions

1.Distribution to be done in a creative manner to increase publicity

1.The final session of the month will be held to plan distribution of our works and to do a book sharing activity.

1.Regular visits to external literary sessions will be scheduled when possible.

1.We aim to increase participation in competitions.

1.We aim to increase collaborations with other groups in TP.

1.More effort will be put in to improve group dynamics

1.There is a suggestion about making the monthly sessions open to everyone, as the new model of action is more self contained.

1. Encourage reading for everyone, suggestions will be put on facebook, especially of the classics.

OCTOBER

Intro

Frighten, scare or startle readers by inducing feelings of horror and terror.

It creates an eerie and frightening atmosphere.

Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural.

Provoke a response, emotional, psychological or physical within each individual that causes someone to react with fear

Yes, its from wiki.

What we looked at:

MOOD & ATMOSPHERE IN DRACULA – BRAM STOKER

EMOTIONS & CHARACTERISATION IN FRANKENSTEIN – MARY SHELLEY

ACTION, GORE & TENSION IN CELL – STEPHEN KING

Writing Exercise

The Real Story : Knock by Fredric Brown http://koapp.narod.ru/english/fantast/book34.htm

ACTIVITY

PLOT OUT A “HORROR” STORYLINE

DEVELOP THE CHARACTERS, SETTINGS, ATMOSPHERE

START WRITING

MISSION:

I WANT A COMPLETED HORROR STORY/POEM/SCRIPT BY 24TH OCTOBER 2012, I wanna try publishing them and distributing them during Halloween week (tentative).

SEE YOU ALL NEXT WEEK!