Sunday 28 April 2013

GRIND WRITERS GROUP NEWS May 2013




GRIND WRITERS NEWS May 2013
now posted at Issuu.com here

  • BC writers –  autonomous fan region: a Grind Writer’s book is published in the UK
  • Submit. (you know you want to)
  • Kisses and Popsicles
  • Write in one of the most exotic places on earth
  • Free-write picture prompt: just do it!
  • Best L’il Book Club in Vancouver
  • Proud moment for Lee Edward Fodi
  • Germs – Yoko Ono – BC Book Gala
  • New audio (podcast) mag
  • Joan—how we gonna keep her down on the farm?
  • Word on the Lake

Full link:  
 http://issuu.com/grindwriters/docs/grind_writers_news--may2013

Monday 22 April 2013

Grind News - April 6, 2013

Read the issue on Issuu.com - here.


  • BC writers autonomous fan region
  • LitFest New West - at a river port near you
  • An evening with Ruth Ozeki & Linda Solomon
  • 100 websites you should know and use
  • Write with Geist: workshops
  • Submit.  (You know you want to.)
  • Haiku time: Vancouver’s Cherry Blossom Fest
  • What is Erasure Poetry anyway?
  • Free-write picture prompt: C’mon, just do it!

photo prompt

Free-write for 15 minutes--no stopping.
Send your output for posting here, to grindwriters@gmail.com  

photo Margo Lamont

Photo Prompt: DIALOGUE

The writing prompt is to write the dialogue between Edward and the face. In your piece the face does not necessarily have to be saying 'evil' things. It might function as a conscience or they could have two very different personalities....and what would ensue.
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The curious case of Edward Mordake is very poignant and sad.

"He was a man that lived in the 19th century and was born with an odd deformity. He had an extra face on the back of his head which was able to laugh or cry, although there isn’t any proof that it actually expressed these emotions. He committed suicide when he was 23 and lived totally isolated for most part of his life." (from website, see link below).

Edward Mordake - Was he truly real?




"Apparently [the face] smiled when he cried and the eyes followed the movements of people around him. 

"Another interesting but highly implausible thing was the fact that the face seemed to be speaking, but nothing could be heard. However, Edward could hear what it was saying and he begged the doctors to remove the face from his head because it talked to him forever about 'things from hell.'  But the surgeons refused to remove it because it was too risky.

"[Edward] used poison to commit suicide and asked in his suicide letter that the face would be removed before burial 'lest it continues its dreadful whisperings in my grave.'"









Sunday 21 April 2013

FREE-WRITE PHOTO PROMPT: Woodstove Silver Service

FREE-WRITE PHOTO PROMPT

Photo courtesy of Grind Writer Wayne Smith.



Free-write  for 15 minutes on whatever comes to mind from looking at this photo -- no stopping, no editing (you can edit later), no thinking--just writing.

Send your out put to grindwriters@gmail.com  for posting here.  en*JOY!



(c)2013 Wayne Smith.