Category: Creative writing
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Creative Writing: A Play
A Back yard play (I wrote the next piece on Friday, October 30, 2015) We are all actors in our own right. Each day has its own plays and performances. Without the players, there can be no scenes or performances. Today I feel like presenting my own scene to you. Three weeks of living […]
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Creative Writing: A special friend.
A person in my life who understood and touched me. On Saturday evening, I received an unexpected WhatsApp call from Adrie, a valuable friend in South Africa. Surprising because we haven’t communicated in more than a year. Why am I writing about Adrie? Our friendship is unique. I met Adrie on a “scrap away week”. […]
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Creative Writing: A phone call
Words: loneliness, trees, conservation, future of the world as you see it, a phone call, trouble A phone call The telephone rang at midnight SA, Ad Why is it when the telephone rings late at night, it is dreadful news? I also don’t know why a hospital has to ring you as late as possible […]
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Creative Writing: Dogs/cats
Dogs/animals Words: teacher, sad time, discipline, horses, insects, craft (2015 Saying goodbye to Kiki) As everybody knows, I am a dog fanatic! I am not into horses; that is why I changed horses to dogs. I have undertaken a lot of house-sitting looking after families pets and places. I won’t undertake the house sitting if […]
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Creative Writing: Scared
19/03/2021 Scared, books, possessions We had to use one or more of the following Words: tertiary education, storm, possessions, books, swim, scared Scared South Africa had a democratic election in 1994. It progressed smoothly while Nelson Mandela was president. 1996-2004 I worked in the local library in Potgietersrus (Mokopane) as a senior librarian. There were […]
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Creative Writing: Another special object.
Memento 2006 is a year that I’ll always remember. One of the best things that happened to me was visiting my son, who had moved to New Zealand in 2005. I had a month’s leave from school to explore how my son was operating here. At first, he lived in a tiny flat in Wellington. […]
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Creative Writing: A treasured object
A Treasured Object Before writing my piece for “It’s Write Easy,”(my Friday writing group) I would think about what I want to write. It can take some days before I’ll sit down and start writing. It was the same this week. At first, I thought about the object that I wanted to use. I kept […]
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Creative Writing: The ash tray
I enrolled in a course on Creative writing. I thoroughly enjoyed working with Shaun Levin on Creative Writing for Beginners: Bringing Your Story to Life Here is the end result of my story. The copper Ash tray A sailboat from the past into the future, that’s my copper ashtray. The ashtray comes from Indonesia. A […]
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