Messy Monday 6/13/11

Our Smocker’s entered Panera Bread, our usual place of choice for meetings. It seemed the most intense of our meeting this far, with adding Theirry’s friend Amy into the mix – with her first time reading her writing in front of others.

We read our respective pieces on Friendship. Theirry read a short story called “uncommon” Jeff read about a love interest that has the option to retain a friendship called “Friends – to be continued.” Blue read two poems, one written in 2008, and the other in 2010 about the same subject matter, which is a mutual friend of ours. You can see the progression of the friend as two years apart. Erica stole the show, with her piece called “Growing Apart.” My piece was called Friendship and Personal Legend. You can read it for yourself here:



The most intense part of the meeting was Erica bringing a box that was called “Writer’s Tool Box.” In it we played a game where we drew sticks that had a sentence, or phrase. WE were all responsible for taking this and writing about it for 2 minutes. Add two other sticks and you got yourself a short story in a short amount of time. Good touch, Erica!



For next week, we drew some phrases on a card from the Writer’s Toolbox, and we are making a piece on intuition. Good luck smockers!

Until tomorrow.

Ralph, The rambunctious smocker

Messy Mondays: One Less Smocker.

I know this post is coming a bit later than usual. However, I've been running around like crazy trying to get my mind right for my vacation this week. Speaking of vacation, you may notice that it's me--Riv--instead of Ralph on the 1's and 2's this Monday. Ralph is on a short hiatus in the great FL, but he'll be back in full effect sooner than later.

The smockers met up at Panera once more--sans our huge breakfasts' which was replaced by HUGE conversation. Jeff is working on choosing pieces worthy of a poetry compilation, Thierry is coming along great with his graphic novel development and even looking for an illustrator, and Ralph and I are working more than diligently on our manuscripts. Smockers were a FORCE this week!

Our topic was change for the week and everyone had an incredible way of penning evolution. Theirry shared an emotional piece on how a tragic event revolutionized his entire world, Jeff shared a piece he wrote at the start of the New Year in his Shakespearian wonder, and I shared a piece about a negative change happening in someone I love.

After short contemplation on our pieces, we exchanged banter of change and evolution within all of our lives. Relationships, interests, rocket scientists, the past and so many more topics lingered near our table of discussion.

Although its only been a few months, I feel like we've become a little writing family. The fact that things flowed smoothly sans Ralph proved this to me. Smockers unite? Word(s)

-riv-