Something more pressing
Yes, you can find a thousand things more urgent than writing, or at least more insistent. Writing for this...
A twig for a pen
Paper was forbidden, so this boy’s brother taught him to write with twigs on the sand, and later he managed...
Difficulty
Ever had that feeling? May it dissolve and pass, fast.
‘Writing was difficult; the words came as painfully as kidney...
On spherical emotions and the need for adjectives
Never thought of emotions as spherical before, but grasp the need for their many-sided expression. And the fact that emotions...
A butterfly in a cactus library
Such an imaginative construct to describe a jagged script! I had fun looking for an image of a cabbage-looking butterfly...
Over-wrought fretwork
A damning description of Victorian writing, contrasted with the delicious sizzle and flavour of 'fat-bacon language'.
'After the fat-bacon language...
Key Penmanship Indicators (KPIs)
An author whose bright writing I cheer and revere made this kind comment about WritingRedux.com. He also handed me a...
Of centuries and cows
These quirky comments by Steinbeck charmed me - first his reaction to the first room he chose to work in,...
Key Penmanship Indicators (KPIs) – III
I like this aesthetic amalgam proposed by Harold Bloom – another high-held yardstick by which to measure quality of writing.
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As free and lawless as a lamb’s bleat
First, the unusual simile, I never thought of a lamb's bleat as free or lawless. Then the idea that a...
Mastiff-like tenacity
Such jaw-gripping tenacity is used to describe the force that the ending '-cious' adds to words, as in the word...
A café in Porto
I have never been to this café but would love to spend a morning there writing postcards and reading newspapers....
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