Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted in the Grove:

You can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.
~Christopher Morley

If words are to enter men’s minds and bear fruit, they must be the right words shaped cunningly to pass men’s defenses and explode silently and effectually within their minds.
~JB Phillips

Forget the epic, the masterwork, leave slow growth to the book reviewers, you only have time to explode.
~Nathaniel West

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Posted from the Grove:

An interesting discussion at last Thurs’ Word Game unfolded in writerly style, complete with hurt feelings and miffed sensibilities. The conversation played out as it did because that’s what writers do. We bicker. We are notorious for it. We work with words and play with ideas, and ideas clash. Thesis >*< antithesis > synthesis :: Propose >*< clash > emend. Rinse and repeat. Ideas should contend with each other, or someone’s not being unique to the conversation. As far as this editor was concerned: mission accomplished

Even if no light had been generated (there was, in fact), the result itself was laudable. An independent writing project was launched, and a new, short-notice writer’s happening will be hosted by Jessa. Occasionally. If not necessarily related, dear friends from There’s first iteration returned to enter the conversation during her meeting

It was jaw-dropping astonishment for this editor when Daisy, then Terra popped in to visit. Yowza! And ‘flood of memories’ acquired sudden new meaning. If someone whose initials are Val were to get her new computer and stopped in and chanced to see them … well, we could sell tickets to that

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Prewritten for Thurs (04/18) 5 pm Pacific/8 Eastern is: Read a news site, a newspaper or a supermarket tabloid. Scan the articles until you find something that interests you and use it as the basis for a scene or story

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@Writers Platform

Glass Table:

~Piffin: Up In Back, Beneath A Tree (p.r. 04.07)

Prewritten: Prepare a list, A to Z, with words for each letter to be mixed and matched as prompts for Thurs Word Games

Sample word/s from each author’s list:

~whitefeather: Prewritten for Thurs (04/11)
wishbone ~ a composite word, skeletal on which to flesh out a story

~Piffin: A sample selection, the letter R
radiant, rancid, redolent, repugnant, repulsive, resonant, resplendent, rhapsodic ~

~BarTalk
reliquary ~ listed word with richest mouth feel

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Impromptu: Write the map to where you live. Use the words: chrysalis, bastion

~Piffin: .Bastion.
Directions for location less important than the soul of a place; myriad images coalesce into identity, the only coordinates are here and now

~BarTalk: The Writer’s Residence

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Writers in Residence: No rounds this week

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