After several great sessions during December and January the group is taking another enforced break as I have to return to UK for further medical treatment. Thank you to all the loyal, regular members who turned up. Sorry to miss those off-island or unable to join us. I will be back asap and hope to reconvene as soon as I am able. Watch this space!
I recent weeks we wrote from a single sentence as stimulus,looked at rhyming slang, dialect and acronyms and their use (or misuse (!) in writing. We wrote about things we liked and disliked and used current events as starting points. Finally we used everyday objects to create ideas for characters.
Here is a Brain Teaser we used in one session, just because we love playing with words!
Sue.

Unusual Words
Look at the words in list A. Use your knowledge, skills and linguistic expertise to match them to the meanings in list B.
A.
Anthropophagy

Zenana

Cavil

Halitus

Satyriasis

Comiconomenclaturist

Seneschal

Triskaidekaphobia

Undergrope

Apostasy

Mardy

Swikedom
B.
1. Breath or exhalation.
2. To make trivial objections to something.
3. The practice of eating human flesh; cannibalism
4. The renunciation of a belief, principle or affiliation that a person previously held.
5. Treachery; betrayal; deceit.
6. Sulky; whining
7. The part of a house in which women and girls are secluded in India and Iran.
8. To delve into; to learn; to understand.
9. Excessive or uncontrollable sexual desire in men (the male equivalent of nymphomania).
10. An abnormal fear of the number 13
11. (In the Middle Ages) the steward in charge of the household or estate of a lord or prince.
12. Someone who collects or studies funny personal names.