Bryan McNally – författare

We Make Writing Makes Us greedy for the right words and the thrill of creating when we know we have done our best work. It epitomises the concept that when we express ourselves, we become ourselves.

For those of us now having escaped the shackles of our working lives, we are now able to be our own masters in achieving our goals in the third trimester of our lives. We may now go where our imagination takes us.

You will find inside the covers of this wonderful literary potpourri, a collection of special works by very talented people in their third age.

A tongue-in-cheek comedy tale that takes us back to the court of King James I of England.

A mouth-watering offering of sweet treats from eastern Europe in a mini-cook book presentation.

Memoirs of life from the heart. Reflecting in many ways how to keep these memories alive and with us forever

Science fiction adventures from another space and time...and much much more.

The collection relates feelings of joy and humour; of life and death; and everything in between. Our class encourages and teaches a variety of writing media, allowing the authors a freedom of expression in their works.

The broad spectrum of works includes memoirs, short stories, poems, cookery, novel extracts and exercises undertaken during the Whittlesea U3A Creative Writing class.

We know you will enjoy the variety of experiences that our senior Victorians have shared within these pages.

The Whittlesea U3A Proudly presents We Make Writing Makes Us and its contributing Authors

Blaženka Hrvojević, Bryan (JBE) McNally, Don Langdon, Jan Marshall, Jenny Martin, Luigi Zucchet, Mark Reed, Maxine Danby, Miriam Zammit, Paul Hollander, Paul Murchison

The Whittlesea University of the Third Age (WU3A) is exactly what it says. A place for learning for those who are about to enter that exciting third age. When you reach the third age, age has no boundaries. We don''t stop learning just because we have left work, or our circumstances change in other ways as we grow older (and wiser).

Learning can be - new skills, hobbies that you wanted to try all your life but didn''t get the time to, or just learning to make new friends with like interests and share new activities and hobbies with old friends

When I retired from work I had no idea what I was going to do. The result, a potential void, that needs to be plugged pretty quickly.

So, after a bit of post-retirement research and clues from already retired friends I checked out the WU3A and what activities were on offer. I have always wanted to write and publish my own novel and felt this would be a creative change.

In late 2016 I joined the e-Publishing class offered by the WU3A. We all thought, great, a publishing class, but what we really need is to have something to publish.

So, I decided to start a Creative Writers Group, et voila.

But enough about me, our boutique little group started with four participants and has grown over the past eighteen months to twelve in the class, all with different writing styles and writing objectives.

We have those who love writing fiction from historical fiction, literary fiction, science fiction and fantasy; to those who love writing memoirs, poetry and plays; to those who love writing about our beloved country and region.

We all hope you enjoy this eclectic anthology of short stories, memoirs, poems and examples of writing exercises we all performed in class.

Yours in Reading

Bryan (J.B.E.) McNally