The Juice Group Writers
For the second meeting of what I call the Juice Group, our writing prompt was “In the center of my house…” Six of us sat in the inner patio at a lakeside restaurant, together but separate in our writing worlds, and silently responded on paper to that prompt of the week. For the next forty-five minutes we followed our own thoughts faithfully, with our pens or on our laptops. Afterwards, we went around in optional sharing of our writing. In this drop-in writing group, critique plays no part, though we listen each other’s tender first drafts of discovery writing with open curiosity and we tell one another what we liked.
Our writing last week ranged all the way from vivid memories of a childhood home to a poem that narrated a biography-by-place. As one example of what following a prompt might produce, here is my draft. In the Center of My House Whether you live here or whether you are visiting, you’re welcome to drop by and join us any Thursday morning at 10 AM. We meet at Maria Isabel Restaurant by the lake in Ajijic. And why do I call it the Juice Group? Because it gets our creative juices flowing!
Sounds great!
thanks Linda
great post, great writing. i would rather do what you are doing than the memoir group I am in. maybe I’ll switch.
Anytime!
This is lovely, Susa. So rich in beautiful imagery that I was there with you, smelling the lemon and eucalyptus.
Like yours
Did you say “memoir group”? That grabbed my attention! I would like to do both.
Can you tell me more about it?