Daily advice
- Glenny Palmer
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Re: Daily advice
....should that be 'multiculturplication'...? What were you saying about language evolving...I think Darwin musta been my Grandpappy....hoo hee haw!
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- Dave Smith
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Re: Daily advice
It’s getting rough when you realise your wheelie bin goes out more than you do.
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Re: Daily advice
...I bin in gaol, but I tell everyone I bin on 'oliday......yeah yeah I know... ![Rolling Eyes :roll:](./images/smilies/icon_rolleyes.gif)
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Re: Daily advice
Writing improves in direct ratio to the number of things we can keep out of it.
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Neville
" Prose is description, poetry is presence " Les Murray.
" Prose is description, poetry is presence " Les Murray.
Re: Daily advice
The smell in my wheelie bin improves in direct ratio to the number of things I keep out of it ![Razz :P](./images/smilies/icon_razz.gif)
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Re: Daily advice
Exactly Marty. He's advising us not to stack the writing with dead stuff.
Neville
" Prose is description, poetry is presence " Les Murray.
" Prose is description, poetry is presence " Les Murray.
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Re: Daily advice
When a man's mind is stretched by a new idea, there's no chance it will shrink back to it's previous dimensions.
Walt Whitman.
Walt Whitman.
Neville
" Prose is description, poetry is presence " Les Murray.
" Prose is description, poetry is presence " Les Murray.
- Peely
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Re: Daily advice
I know I have written a silly poem about a dead bird in the past - I try not to write about dead things too often though, it can deaden the mood a little.Neville Briggs wrote:Exactly Marty. He's advising us not to stack the writing with dead stuff.
John Peel - The Man from Gilmore Creek
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Re: Daily advice
Here's some dead things in poetry :
Waffle
Stale language
Clichés
Vagueness
Abstractions and generalisations
Obvious spelling out rather than suggesting
Pomposity
Archaisms
Derivitive/imitative writing
Syntactical clumsiness
Obscurity
Rhythmical bumpiness
Clanging rhyme.
( Matthew Sweeney,John Hartley Williams. )
Waffle
Stale language
Clichés
Vagueness
Abstractions and generalisations
Obvious spelling out rather than suggesting
Pomposity
Archaisms
Derivitive/imitative writing
Syntactical clumsiness
Obscurity
Rhythmical bumpiness
Clanging rhyme.
( Matthew Sweeney,John Hartley Williams. )
Neville
" Prose is description, poetry is presence " Les Murray.
" Prose is description, poetry is presence " Les Murray.