Family History Writing Group
Description
When you are ready to turn all of your research into an entertaining story, or even before, the Family History Writing Group can help you. This is a friendly and accepting group, which includes experienced writers and beginners. We are always keen to welcome new members.
We devise a yearly program of topics and challenges, but you may choose to write your own stories or just sit in until you are ready to write. Stories written for the meetings are often published in the Queensland Family Historian.
The challenge aspect of each month involves an element of the story. You may be asked to focus on the beginning of the story, the end the story or on an aspect of writing style. We will provide resources for the challenge.
Meetings
The group meets on the third Saturday in January, March, May, July, September, and November between 9.00 am and 11.30 am at:
QFHS Library and Resource Centre
58 Bellevue Avenue
Gaythorne, Qld
Next Meetings:
- 19 Nov 2022
Convenors
Program
QFHS Writing Group 2022 Program
Meeting Notes 2022
September - Parallel Construction and the Rule of Three
May - Alliteration, assonance, and onomatopoeia
Meeting Notes 2021
November - Forward slashes, ellipsis, and brackets
January - Apostrophes and exclamation marks
Meeting Notes 2020
QFHS Writing Group 2020 Program
September - Noun/adjective stacks
May - Adverbs and strong verbs
March - Comma splices and run on sentences
January - Active and passive voice
Meeting Notes 2019
September - Enhancing bare facts