Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted in the Grove:
Television – a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
~Ernie Kovacs

The television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn’t have in your home.
~David Frost

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer’s heart.
~Fred Allen

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Editor’s note: The above quotes reflect an earlier age in television. Some of it is less true now, some of it more so. The editor leaves it to the reader to decide

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Posted from the Grove:
Interesting new ideas for Prewritten and Impromptu exercises were discussed at Thurs’ meeting. Apparently there are possibilities besides themes, pictures and two-word prompts available. It’s a wonderful world, isn’t it? Stop by Thurs to see if one of these new avenues of writing suits you

With personalities again meshing creatively in WG, it seems an excellent time to offer a service first requested by Greenie. People intend to come, people want to come … people forget. Anyone wishing an email reminder on Thurs for Thurs’ Word Game, please let BarTalk know. This is an offer to remind, not an occasion to nag

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Prewritten for Thurs (04/10) @6pm PT/9 ET is: orchard, chiffon

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@Writers Platform
Prewritten: 1/3 of US public school teachers resign their first year; write about one

~Stejovis: Report to the Teacher’s Union  (A triolet in iambic pentameter)
Intricately woven rhyme and progression scheme used for understanding the exodus; there are reasons, many reasons they leave, every one of them is a loss

~Piffin: “Teacher”
A snapshot day, a bored generation farmed off to school 9 months at a time; an inconvenience about the length of time it takes for getting born, a pain but kind of necessary; or choose pencil pushing, working numbers

~BarTalk: Chapter 6 ~ First, a student …

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Impromptu: mantra, cameo

~Piffin: “Vasco de Gama”
When hearing of seamen, he heard the word semen, he liked ‘em big an’ the wee men, ’twas his reason for going to sea then

~Greymane: You Already Knew
The poet’s long road home and the answer he never left: with life gone funky-foul, with memories a hot pile of compost and fetid regrets, give a thought to seeds and sunlight, and good things growing from fertilized ground

Favorite line: if you’re running from nothing and falling behind

~Stejovis: senryu
Meditation’s hard copy etched in rock

~BarTalk: haiku

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Writers in Residence

~Greymane @Greyed Escape: At Last
Adventures gone sour make the best stories, but really, is it worth it

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