The Writers' Workshop met on September 3rd at Adriana Palma's. We had some interesting discussions on the difference in the usage of certain words, such as 'understandable' and 'comprehensible', with similar meaning but not quite the same. The dictionary and Charmian as a native English speaker helped us to arrive at the right conclusions.

Charmian wrote a thrilling short story with this opening paragraph: “We were looking for a new house as ours had been destroyed by an explosion which, they said, had been caused by an escape of gas, but we, my son and I knew better. We remembered what Jack had said: ’Enjoy it while it lasts’ were his last words. I had wondered what he meant.”

Finally we read what Virginia Woolf had written on second hand book shops: “always the same sense of adventure fills us, second hand books are wild books, homeless ... a charm which the domesticated vol- umes of the library lack...we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world." We were moved to find that we were all sharing the same feelings of such a good writer.