A mismatched group of authors, you never know what you might find here.
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Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Writers Guild holds September meetings
Members of the Point Pleasant Writers Guild met in September and shared their writing assignments. The first assignment used the following conflict: meeting a wild man on a mountain and choosing what would be best−to stay or to go. What follows demonstrates how differently the same conflict is described by different writers.
One author’s “wild man” was actually a man who had once worked on Wall Street and had chosen to become a hermit, living in an isolated mountain cabin for the past 10 years. One day he returns from a hunting expedition and finds a woman in his cabin, drinking his coffee. Should he stay and remain a hermit, or go and share his life with this woman whom he had once loved?
For another author, an escaped convict was a “wild man” who had made the mistake of taking refuge in an isolated mountain cabin thirty miles from the prison…a cabin which belonged to a woman who had once played Varsity football and could tackle and fell a man without any problems at all. No question about who would stay and who would go here.
A third writer had a young hiker come across a “wild man” living on a mountain where he hunted, fished, observed nature, read books, and enjoyed freedom from obligations. The hiker is surprised that such a rustic person speaks with intelligence and reads books. His host does not need company but he gives the younger man the choice of staying or leaving.
Another author’s heroine was a young girl seeking adventure. After answering an ad to work in a Tennessee Mountain Mission, she found herself in some pretty bad company. The man in charge looked wild and not to be trusted. Another man at the mission was a charmer. Go or stay?
Another assignment involved intrigue. The first story was about a mystery writer who visits Tu-Endi-Wei Park to research Chief Cornstalk and learns that someone has stolen her computer out of her house. The Curse of Cornstalk strikes again.
The second story is about a man who comes to Point Pleasant, stays at the Lowe Hotel, and visits Tu-Endi-Wei Park in search of family history. When he returns to the hotel, he finds an unknown woman searching his room. He learns that she had once known his son, who had recently passed away, and has a child by him. When caught, she had been looking for proof that this man was the grandfather of her child.
The third assignment was to write about someone being trapped in a small space.
One member’s main character was the victim of mistaken identity. While out jogging in the early morning, someone attacks him and he wakes up to find himself bound and bleeding, lying on a damp floor, his cell phone gone. Luckily he’s wearing a sharp belt buckle and uses it to free himself and make his escape.
Another’s heroine has just had a job interview and was on her way to lunch with a friend when the elevator stopped between floors. With no cell phone, there’s nothing left to do but talk to herself and wait. Being trapped in an elevator didn’t seem to bother her much.
In another story, a man is shackled to the wall of a small room which has no windows, but cracks between the boards let in a little light. His last memory was being in an airport. Knowing that his fate is to be beheaded by extremists, he alternates between praying for death and rescue.
A fourth story featured a plane which had been high jacked by men disguised as airline pilots and air marshals. Their goal is to find someone in the jungle who will act as their political puppet and convince the “unthinkers” of the country that he is the answer to all their problems.
The last author read a poem entitled “Silver Moonlight” where she thinks she sees a man in the moonlight, but it turns out he’s just a dream.
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