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This evening Benjamin Scott returned to Norwich Writers' Circle for our Children's Adventure Story Competition adjudication.
The freelance writer commented on the competition entries in a variety of ways, these included that the stories:
- Focused on a boy, as per his original recommendations
- Had an adventure element that made your heart race
- Had a strong, logical, emotional and narrative flow
- Featured an interesting central character
- Were appropriate as short stories, and not as longer prose
- Did not use the word 'that' needlessly
- Had been proof read, with any mistakes corrected
After hearing Ben's valued feeback, we then heard a selection of the winning entries. As with our previous competition, 3 winners were selected along with 2 commendations.
The winners were:
1st - The Cooper Prize
Night River
by Sally Newton
2nd
Earthworks
by Doreen Rosser
3rd
The Big Weekend
by Mickie Dann
Commendation
Tibor Finds A Halo
by Anne Funnell
Commendation
The Blue Lady
by Victoria Bartlett
The next NWC meeting is after Easter on 6th April.
Our 6th April meeting is a talk by Andrew Brammer on Writing Humour Based On Personal Experiences. This meeting will also include the popular author performing some of his tall tales.
Norwich Writers' Circle's 2010 was kick-started this evening with a workshop, held by Benjamin Scott, in a packed Sexton Room at The Assembly House.
The freelance writer's fun workshop was designed to stimulate and encourage our writing ideas. The main focus of the workshop were several exercises involving the flipping of a 1p coin to randomly create a pair of unrelated characters, their environment, plus a story to fit all our creations together.
During the evening, Benjamin also set our In-House Competition Three and advised us of what he was expecting to see in our entries. Competiton Three is for the Cooper Prize and involves writing a Children's Adventure Story of around 2,000 words. Ben stated that he would like our stories to focus on a boy under 10 who goes on a journey, either literally or emotionally, and that he wanted the reader to be gripped from the first paragraph onwards.
Our next meeting sees the return of Esther Morgan, who, on 2nd February, will adjudicate our competition to write a poem of no longer than 40 lines on the theme of 'Encounters'.
We hope to see you next time.
