Daily advice

[Glenny Palmer]

....should that be 'multiculturplication'...? What were you saying about language evolving...I think Darwin musta been my Grandpappy....hoo hee haw!

[Dave Smith]

It’s getting rough when you realise your wheelie bin goes out more than you do.

TTFN

[warooa]

where's ya bin?

[r.magnay]

...I bin in gaol, but I tell everyone I bin on 'oliday......yeah yeah I know...

[Neville Briggs]

Writing improves in direct ratio to the number of things we can keep out of it.

William Zinsser

[warooa]

The smell in my wheelie bin improves in direct ratio to the number of things I keep out of it

[Neville Briggs]

Exactly Marty. He's advising us not to stack the writing with dead stuff.

[Neville Briggs]

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.

[Peely]

Exactly Marty. He's advising us not to stack the writing with dead stuff.

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]

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. )