Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted in the Grove:

Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it’s a letdown, they won’t buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book.
~Mickey Spillane

Those big-shot writers could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.
~Mickey Spillane

If you’re a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he’s good, the older he gets, the better he writes.
~Mickey Spillane

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Posted From The Grove:

Creative Writing: Course Example

Ancestry, version one:
John Smith, horse thief, sent to Montana Territorial Prison 1885, escaped 1887, robbed the Montana Flyer six times. Caught by Pinkerton detectives, convicted and hanged in 1889.

Spin Doctor, version two:
John Smith was a famous cowboy in the Montana Territory. His business empire grew to include acquisition of valuable equestrian assets and intimate dealings with the Montana railroad. Beginning in 1883, he devoted several years of his life to government service, finally taking leave to resume his dealings with the railroad. In 1887, he was a key player in a vital investigation run by the renowned Pinkerton Detective Agency. In 1889, he passed away during an important civic function held in his honor when the platform upon which he was standing collapsed.

From archives, revived by, Deb Baddorf (A.W.A.D.)

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14 Words That Don’t Mean What You Think They Do, with Anu Garg
https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/14-words-even-the-smartest-people-get-wrong.html

This article opens the opportunity to give thanks again to those people and organizations that this editor uses in producing Wordgrove’s Post & Review.

A.Word.A.Day ~ Nation’s number one site for word (and quote) lovers
Wordsmith.org

ThinkExist.com ~ Quotes

GoComics.com ~ Comics

Rusty’s Electric Dreams ~ E-zine
ElectricDreaming.com

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Prewritten for Thurs (12/07) @6pm PT/9 ET is: prissy, ultimate

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@Writers Platform:

Prewritten: Short story using 2 of 3: bombast, opulent, robot

~BarTalk: Thus, It Began / Clean Air Act

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Impromptu: ku on – cricket

~Piffin: “Cricket”

That cricket.

It won’t stop.

It reminds me of summers. When things were easy.

Somewhere outside. Its song slow, the way of crickets in autumn.

It distracts me.

But it does nothing to help me wipe the blood off the kitchen floor.

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~Greymane: untitled

Cricket singing symphony upon his ragged legs
Promised light her destiny the more her sorrow begs
Danced a distant memory through where the vision dies
We punished dreams for all the mean obscene unfounded lies

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~MissMerry:  ku

Crickets chirp til dark
Moonbeams show the nighttime fog
cold mornings go silent

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~BarTalk: ku

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