COMMENTS on our NEW CWC March/April 2020 🤡 ANNIVERSARIES

polowoman

jesi23 - Thanks so much for your reply. Am delighted you have your first entry for this thread and from your husband. Will head over and read it, probably tomorrow. Between the problems of trying to book a home delivery (an activity I turned into what seemed like a full-time job with overtime but was eventually successful - due on Wednesday), involved in booking a supermarket delivery for my 95 year-old mother-in-law and the sudden death of a friend, have not been online much recently but hope to rectify that this week. Thanks again for keeping me updated - I'll be in touch again soon.

polowoman

polowoman - @serving_n_a_j I have just read your entry and found it very thought-provoking, as I recalled anniversaries which mean much to me. Many events which you have celebrated are mirrored in our lives, and your happy recollections have made me smile, while remembering again, with much sadness, some of the tragedies which shocked the world. Now life here has seems to have calmed down a little, I hope to write a short piece on this topic to add to yours, and (I hope) those of other writers. ✍️

serving_n_a_j

polowoman Thank you for your encouraging comment. If only you knew how I had to rack my memory to write the article...! And of course I left something out that I meant to include - the times jesi23 and I went to the cinema for such an anniversary celebration (or otherwise) and came away so enthralled by the film that we immediately went back to see it again, even when we were driving away from the venue. It's happened at least twice (we don't go to the cinema very often)! I wonder if anyone else has done the same thing? Surely we can't be unique!

serving_n_a_j

polowoman I've just read your post on Anniversaries. Surely a remarkable piece of writing, in which I totally forgot about your first sentence and felt I had actually experienced your enjoyment of the outing to the seaside and 'Adventure City' So real too - a rainy summer day's outing which started well but where you had to look for other entertainment to make what could have been a disappointing occasion memorable. Lovely!

frenchielove

polowoman what an enjoyable read, really took me right there, thank you. Would love to read the other visits too, well done 🤗

polowoman

frenchielove - Thank you for your kind words and glad you enjoyed my piece of surrealism - or was it?! I haven't yet written the other two but hope to fit those inaround my other writing projects so will let you know when they are ready. However, am wondering if I have been over-ambitious with the idea of travelling back to meet people from previous centuries. Will have to give it more thought and see what I can come up with for a surreal-plausible story. Leave it with me!! Am now about to send you a post about your excellent piece. 😀

polowoman

frenchielove - Me again and it's just like old times for us on the CWC so good to be in touch with you again. Just wanted to say that while reading your entry I could detect the very personal touch you had given it. Recalling your Mum, with much sadness on your anniversary, and branching out further to consider the all-pervading Covid-19, and how people are helping each other in so many ways, gave it a wide understanding. Anniversaries can be private or public celebrations but whichever applies, they are much-marked occasions across the world.

ikkyh56

Just read the thread good one👍

jesi23

ikkyh56 Just read the thread

The challenge is available for one month at a time, with a new topic the next month! (For May, topic will be ‘friendship’ if people want to plan ahead!)

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polowoman

serving_n_a_j - Why not add the recollection you omitted? I don't think it will be too late to do so. It did happen once or twice when I hosted the CWC and there was no objection, as long as the author checked so you could ask Jes and then maybe include your extra paragraph. Great that you enjoyed a film so much you went back to see it again. Do you have any particular favourites from those days if so maybe you could mention it in your hoped-for addition to your article. Good luck with your writing - I hope you will continue with this, if only for the CWC.

serving_n_a_j

frenchielove jesi23 I really enjoyed reading it, great stuff ❤️

Thank you so much for your approval.

polowoman

serving_n_a_j - Thank you so much for your very positive comments on my rather bizarre piece. As you may know, I am a compulsive scribe and belonging to a local writers' group for nearly 20 years, have written reams of stories based on the themes we choose at each meeting, and every so often I like to delve into the slightly surreal as there is more scope for a tale, though I always keep it within a realistic setting. I decided to use that approach with this and as ever, once I have a first sentence and vague idea of a story, I start to write and then the characters and their adventures unfold as I write. No guarantee the finished product is worth reading, but it gives me pleasure and takes me away from the troubles of life and into a non-existent world where the unlikely can happen.

serving_n_a_j

polowoman Thank you for your suggestion. I have now edited it to include the missing items and made a few other small alterations.

polowoman

serving_n_a_j - I'm delighted you have made the additions to your entry. I imagine you feel more satisfied with it now. I have just reat it again and also found the extras of interest, though have to admit I had never heard of either film, though have never been one to watch films, even on TV, so it's not too surprising. However, the important thing is that you both enjoyed them so much you went back to see them again, and from my love of comedy, I know that with each viewing more can be picked up from the story or action which makes it all the more understandable and entertaining. Hope you and the family have a good Easter at home, though it will all be somewhat bizarre this year with lockdown.

frenchielove

@amejoy that was a fantastic read. Gave me quite a chuckle, well done to you

amejoy

frenchielove Thank you! I wrote it yesterday and decided to take the plunge and share it this morning.

jesi23

amejoy

Thank you for your entry! I happened to be on the Challenge Page on my husband’s phone, and we were delighted to read it! I read it out loud to him, and he also enjoyed the mother’s maiden name! (I’m on my iPad again, now, so I can respond more easily) - it is an odd thing how much easier it is sometimes to read things on one device and reply on another!

I hope you continue to write, now we have started up the monthly challenge again!

Next month (May) the topic is ‘Friendship’ and I am open to suggestions for further topics as well!

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amejoy

jesi23 Hello and thank you for your kind comment and also for establishing these CWC threads. I've enjoyed reading the entries and hope that more people feel emboldened to join in. I will certainly give next month's topic some thought. As for suggestions I wonder if 'At the beach' or 'Lost and found' might be the sort of topics that would be suitable?

jesi23

amejoy As for suggestions I wonder if 'At the beach' or 'Lost and found' might be the sort of topics that would be suitable?

Those certainly could be used! What I usually do is to give credit to the member suggesting and request a paragraph or so (can send in Private Discussion) for me to include in the opening post with the topic. Last year, one month @polowoman suggested ‘Teeth’ as her saga with her dentist was ‘worthy of an entry’ in a future challenge. _{_🤡}

amejoy

jesi23 I could do that. Perhaps you'll let me know nearer the time? Or do you plan ahead? I hope that I could still write an entry too. The topic of teeth was a good idea as everyone has something to say about them and dentists.
I must sign off now as our wi-fi is down this morning (eeek!)

polowoman

jesi23 - @jesi23, both suggestions from @amejoy sound promising for inspiring some good written pieces. Between the CWC and the writers' group I belong to (now suspended, of course), I've always found a title with a phrase or a few words can give rise to greater interpretation, resulting in a real variation in the storylines and themes from the writers. When I hosted the CWC I gathered together all the suggestions from readers and writers on the thread (quote a collection) and Lost and Found was among them. Not sure if I've already sent you this list, but if you'd like a copy please let me know and I'll send it along.

jesi23

amejoy I hope that I could still write an entry too

There are no restrictions as to who may post an entry; even I sometimes enter (my OP does not count as an entry); only that each person only enter once each month; if someone wants to write more, they can contribute a ‘non-entry’ here in the COMMENTS thread.

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