Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted In The Grove:
The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!
~Bill Watterson

There is one other definition of shmeer, used in Israel, similar to the idiomatic American expression “to fudge”, as in intentionally writing something that is difficult to decipher, like an exam answer, to conceal the writer’s lack of knowledge.
~Joe Hoffman

In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.
~George Orwell

EndQuote:
We should not write so that it is possible for the reader to understand us, but so that it is impossible for him to misunderstand us.
~Quintilian

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Prewritten Exercise for Thurs 09/19:  litmus, pipe

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Posted from the Grove

~Diane Ackerman:  Famous writers and their odd ways of writing
https://mailchi.mp/delanceyplace.com/writers-91219?e=7517c06f38

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~Abba:  Their Last Video   (6:24)

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@Writers Platform

Prewritten:  skirt, monastery

~BarTalk:
Ink Dirt

Skirting the issue of chasing skirts
Plying the monk trade for what it’s worth
Playing the rhythm game voiding issues of birth
Mysteries of The Monastery the author’s new work
Stories of heart told from a hearth gone dark

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Sublimation

The nuns the monks and their monsters
Want catharsis
Want to go ecstatically bonkers
No music no dance of a current age
No comics no headlines or editorial page
Where skirted costumes abound
There’s great fun to be found
Their Monastery Rag is a rage

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5-7-5 x 2

skirt steak served up rare
monastic taste runs to gruel
cosmic banquet spread
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skirt the rule of church
forest for monastery
gratitude for prayer

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