Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted in the Grove:
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?
~Ernest Hemingway

Accept everything about yourself–I mean everything. You are you and that is the beginning and the end–no apologies, no regrets.
~Henry Kissinger

My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you’re lucky.
~Alan Moore

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Posted from the Grove:
Thurs Word Games was subdued this week and produced no new writing. The impromptu exercise was scuttled in favor of coming to terms…. Different people stopped by to chat, stayed a while and left. The talk was about light, but the mood was dark. It was about Piffin

The news isn’t good, but it leaves room for hope. After two weeks in intensive care, Piffin isn’t responding to treatment as expected.  Prognosis is uncertain. Her family is otherwise engaged at the moment; news will arrive when it is warranted

The prayer that says ‘thank you’ is usually sufficient to get one thru life. But there comes a time when even the unknowing and unbelieving find a reason to ask the universe for a favor. Whatever happens, it can’t be ruled out that there is Someone who listens to prayer, our perturbations in the ether. If it is in your power to send healing her way (because there are those who can), please do.  For the rest of us, it might help to believe; but even if not, it can’t hurt her to think of Piffin in a moment of prayer. As noted, news from the Post & Review isn’t good this week, so it goes out early in order that prayers can be said

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Ginger Leigh, the third novella in the four book mini-series, Noble Gabe Alone, is finished. The chapters are generally short. All 18 of them will be dropped on display tables behind the well in Wordgrove. They’ll be remain out waiting for Piffin’s return

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Prewritten for Thurs (06/05) @6pm PT/9 ET is: an image
http://ishtari.arcticworlds3d.com/therestuff/nebula001.jpg

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@Writers Platform
Glass Table: No new drops

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Prewritten: space, blind

~Greymane: Followed Her Blind
There are pleasures and comfort in destinies shared, when the chained and the jailer are willingly paired
Favorite line:
She reached out her hand and I followed her blind

~BarTalk: Epitaph #3

Piffin: AWOL

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Impromptu: none this week

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Writers in Residence:

~whitefeather @Firelight: Passages of Time

that lucid hour
sunset reflecting shadows
on pristine white walls
Orb weaver spinning silk thread
silent emptiness of time
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http://youtu.be/blZCFVEjc5A

~GaryBob @NutNut Fountain: Writers Block
Like getting something from nothing and squeezing blood from a stone, a writer’s prayer answers itself

~Greymane @Greyed Escape: Mask
The crowning lies of a princess, truths behind a mask; a charade, a masquerade heavy to hold in place drops away at last

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Quoted in the Grove:
I think all writing is a disease. You can’t stop it.
~William Carlos Williams

Writing is a failure. Writing is not only useless, it’s spoiled paper.
~Padgett Powell

In certain ways writing is a form of prayer.
~Denise Levertov

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Posted from the Grove:
A too-quiet week in the grove. Greenie is away taking care of another’s needs; we wait for Piffin’s return from the borderlands. In the meantime …

How long should a book be to optimize its acceptance in the publishing world? This article covers the range of book lengths (in number of words), for various markets. It does not include information on newer, shorter forms of fiction, but the coverage is otherwise broad and useful
http://www.writersdigest.com/editor-blogs/guide-to-literary-agents/word-count-for-novels-and-childrens-books-the-definitive-post

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Prewritten for Thurs (05/29) @6pm PT/9 ET is: space, blind

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@Writers Platform
Glass Table:

~GaryBob: Scratch Paper
The beauty, the promise, the futility of the blank page; the scribbled thoughts, crossed out words and crowded margins of scratch paper; virgin snow and the living river

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Prewritten: immolate, emeritus

~Stejovis: fugitive, gown (last week – qif)

christening gown
below her mother’s breast
little fugitive

~Greymane: Through the Night
The professor man full of brains and the darker conflicts he’s up against; are his questions harder, the answers starker, or the same for any mensch

~BarTalk: the lesson

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Impromptu: leftovers, exquisite

~Greymane: Silent Eyes
The blazing light that falls to earth, the fire that flickers out; hats off (hand over heart), a salute for the star leaving the stage

~BarTalk: Exquisite Leftovers

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Writers in Residence:

~Greymane: Painted Highway
It’s the road with one direction, there’s no turning ’round; she’s gone, the way is lost, but he knows for sure he’ll reach the end

~Mary_Helen:  READ THIS
“Couples … Enjoy a Sundae while relaxing with the Oldies!” (quoted, further directions included in the Rules book by the canvas bench in Wordgrove)

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Quoted in the Grove:
The unreal is more profound than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. because it is only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. stone crumbles, wood rots, people, well, they die. but things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.
~Chuck Palahniuk

Without poets, without artists, everything would fall apart into chaos. There would be no more seasons, no more civilizations, no more thought, no more humanity, no more life even; and impotent darkness would reign forever. Poets and artists together determine the features of their age, and the future meekly conforms to their edit.
~Apollinaire

You want weapons? We’re in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world! This room’s the greatest arsenal we could have — arm yourselves!
~Dr Who

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Posted from the Grove:
OnStage @Wordgrove East is still a good idea … just not well attended. Since this editor has more time on his hands without the distractions of civilization, he will be inworld more often, and will occasionally put out an Activity Flag for OnStage, as time allows. There has its own catalog of distractions

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Prewritten for Thurs (05/15) @6pm PT/9 ET is: fugitive, gown

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@Writers Platform
Glass Table:

~Piffin: “Asses” (qif)

Asses are for sitting
Asses are for chaps
Asses are for hitting
And pillowing at naps
Asses are for kissing
And pulling donkey carts
Asses are worth missing
When they are shaped like hearts
Asses are for shaking
Asses are for slides
Asses are for breaking beds
On one night motel rides
Asses are for rubbing liniment
And baby earl
Asses are for scrubbing clean
You dirty, dirty girl
Asses, my damnation
Asses, bless my soul
Assly fascination
With two cheeks and a
Holy smoke, now,
Everyone loves asses
Love primal and profound
Except when they pass gasses
Then it’s matches all around

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Prewritten: http://ishtari.arcticworlds3d.com/therestuff/pic001.jpg

 ~Greymane: Victim of His Storm
Trapped inside his interior room, the painted cell of self; ‘I’ of the storm, without a friend, the sailor Captain Failure sails the quest without an end

~Piffin: “Cat in a Window and a Boat”   (qif)

Didn’t write nothin’
‘Cause we’re all gonna die
We’re all gonna die
All gonna die
Russians in Crimea
And we’re all gonna die
Cat in a window and a boat

~BarTalk: Dream Boat

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Impromptu: Riff on the following bowling cartoon
http://wordgrove.com/pins.html

~Piffin: “Ten Pins for Days”  (qif)

Still ain’t writin’ nothin’
‘Cause we’re all gonna die
We’re all gonna die
All gonna die
One thing left worth sayin’
Though we’re all gonna die
My wife’s the hottest bowler that I know
 
~Greymane: untitled

Standing tall against the cannon ball unleashed on them by fate; 10 might fall or the gutter ball, then targets again waiting their next date

~BarTalk: The Terminator

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Writers in Residence:

~Jessalee @Creative InTentions: New Avie Donations
Jessa’s thumbs up for mimi06 and her club, The Messy Closet. Congested inventory, too much lag time loading Gear? Newbies and needy avies can find free treasure here … your help that used to be clutter

Also: Men-Womens Clothes pt 3
Jessa earning T$ from her closet

~Greymane @Greyed Escape: In Decision
To build walls against lies, or be willing to accept deceit; it bleeds, but the truth that hurts is the truth that sets you free

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