Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted in the Grove:
I began to ask two questions while I was reading a book that excited me: not only what was going to happen next, but how is this done? How is it that these words on the page make me feel the way I’m feeling? This is the line of inquiry that I think happens in a child’s mind, without him even knowing he has aspirations as a writer.
~E L Doctorow

Somewhere along the line the rhythms and tonalities of music elided in my brain with the sounds that words make and the rhythm that sentences have.
~E L Doctorow

A writer’s life is so hazardous that anything he does is bad for him. Anything that happens to him is bad: failure’s bad, success is bad; impoverishment is bad, money is very, very bad. Nothing good can happen. Except the act of writing.
~E L Doctorow

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PS: Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as the headlights, but you make the whole trip that way.
~E L Doctorow

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Posted from the Grove:
Prewritten for Thurs (01/31) 5 pm Pacific/8 Eastern is:
Write about snooping in another’s diary

On the Contest:
Thanks to information from Greenie, the last couple months of agonized frustration with new computer were resolved. Like magic. It was beautiful. Thank you, Greenie!

The tables are out to accept your submissions for the Wordgrove Prize. Tally boards are out, but will not be activated for voting until next Sunday. Since it is uncertain how many will enter in each category, the official vote will be held online at Wordgrove’s website instead of using the Tally signs. To view the list of entrants and titles from WG’s last contest (2010), click on any of the following links and proceed from there:

http://wordgrove.com/prose.html
http://wordgrove.com/poetry.html
http://wordgrove.com/journal.html

Voting will close at midnight on Valentine’s Day, Thurs, 2/14, for the simple convenience of being easy to remember. Totals will available online anytime, and will be updated daily in the Rules Book on the center riser of each table

The award ceremony is tentatively scheduled for Sat afternoon, Feb 26th, at 1pm Pacific time, 4pm Eastern. This will give our host, Sunny Music, and entertainers from the Society of There Musicians time to coordinate and prepare for the award ceremony. This will be a black tie event

Those entering the contest are responsible for redropping their work each week for the duration of the contest. The Indian puja table to the immediate east of the Prose, Poetry and Journal tables, is reserved for those participating but who wish not to enter the vote

The prize is a Silver Quill in each of the three categories, plus the Gold Torch for the Wordgrove Prize. A T$5,000 purse is awarded with each prize. Non-members are encouraged to enter

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@Writers Platform
Glass Table: The assumption is that everyone is working on their entries for the writing contest, because there are no new drops

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Prewritten: Tell a story in the form of a prayer

~Piffin: untitled
Dear God, let them run out of gas
Please, let the plan fall through
Although, failing that, dear Lord
Let my baby’s aim be true*

*Quoted

~BarTalk: Courage, Lord

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Impromptu: blood, wild

~Piffin: Arena
Hired assassins, invisible ninjas recruited from gaming worlds rain death like Thor from the sky; the targets are pixels or people, but the kill is a uniform high

~Jessalee: ~hockey~
Red smears on the ice, fans go wild with blood-lust

~BarTalk: Never the Vampire

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Writers in Residence: On contest hiatus. A reminder to Wordgrove Nutters: Besides work on your contest entry, you are encouraged to look thru old material to feature in your pazs post-contest

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