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sulcus
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Here's a 27 word story
"A,B&E", "Not In My Name" and "52FF" (flash fiction anthology) all available on Amazon Kindle"How a psychopath makes sweet love. I can get you ringside. Royal box even."
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Temperance
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I only get wallpaper; are the words hidden in the pattern? xT
Everyone has a price - mine is chocolate Chocolate is important.
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dancingsue
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Does Melissa always talk bollocks?
the long and the short of itTriclops: a collection of forty short stories by Avery Mathers, Susan Howe and Lee Williams.
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sulcus
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Quote: Temperance, Friday, 5 Mar 2010 08:22I only get wallpaper; are the words hidden in the pattern? xT No, it's the piece entitled 'Visual Literature'. I think the wallpaper you're referring to is the cover of my book!
"A,B&E", "Not In My Name" and "52FF" (flash fiction anthology) all available on Amazon Kindle"How a psychopath makes sweet love. I can get you ringside. Royal box even."
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Nestat
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You've finally coerced us into reading an extract! Congratulations! Now, why "abscissa" over "ordered pair"?
Writing for yourself is writing for others: "My book could very well end up being reconstituted as a trestle table in a home for battered women." - Alan Partridge
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sulcus
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Quote: Nestat, Friday, 5 Mar 2010 11:26You've finally coerced us into reading an extract! Congratulations! Now, why "abscissa" over "ordered pair"? Ha I knew the 27 words only would lure you over to the dark side! Abscissa as both the x-co-ordinate line on a graph (coined by Descartes, "I think therefore I am" which is patently baloney), but also echoing it's original etymolgy of 'a cut' or 'an incision'. And before I'm pulled up on it, it really doesn't matter if a reader doesn't get all those layers & meanings... It offers a spectrum of 'meaning' along which any reader can hopefully derive something.
This post was last edited by sulcus, 05 Mar 2010, 11:45
"A,B&E", "Not In My Name" and "52FF" (flash fiction anthology) all available on Amazon Kindle"How a psychopath makes sweet love. I can get you ringside. Royal box even."
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Joe 90
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Quote: sulcus, Friday, 5 Mar 2010 11:45Quote: Nestat, Friday, 5 Mar 2010 11:26You've finally coerced us into reading an extract! Congratulations! Now, why "abscissa" over "ordered pair"? Ha I knew the 27 words only would lure you over to the dark side! Abscissa as both the x-co-ordinate line on a graph (coined by Descartes, "I think therefore I am" which is patently baloney), but also echoing it's original etymolgy of 'a cut' or 'an incision'. And before I'm pulled up on it, it really doesn't matter if a reader doesn't get all those layers & meanings... It offers a spectrum of 'meaning' along which any reader can hopefully derive something. I had an abscissa under a tooth once, very painful.
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sulcus
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Quote: Joe 90, Friday, 5 Mar 2010 11:46Quote: sulcus, Friday, 5 Mar 2010 11:45Quote: Nestat, Friday, 5 Mar 2010 11:26You've finally coerced us into reading an extract! Congratulations! Now, why "abscissa" over "ordered pair"? Ha I knew the 27 words only would lure you over to the dark side! Abscissa as both the x-co-ordinate line on a graph (coined by Descartes, "I think therefore I am" which is patently baloney), but also echoing it's original etymolgy of 'a cut' or 'an incision'. And before I'm pulled up on it, it really doesn't matter if a reader doesn't get all those layers & meanings... It offers a spectrum of 'meaning' along which any reader can hopefully derive something. I had an abscissa under a tooth once, very painful. X-rated no doubt. You pun duellist/dualist you
"A,B&E", "Not In My Name" and "52FF" (flash fiction anthology) all available on Amazon Kindle"How a psychopath makes sweet love. I can get you ringside. Royal box even."
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AntCity
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Well, I suppose it is a story but to me it feels more like opening lines for something longer or, alternatively, a poem.
I suppose that fewer words allow you to reach the low attention span masses out there, clamouring for something to read, but next you will be using words with three or less letters. sulcus, you risk going commercial.
If you continue to write like this who will use the far reaches of the English language? Who will stop those obscure units of meaning (had to use my Thesaurus for that) from fading into not even memory?
The milkman, the pub, the Church of England, the Post Office, the telephone with a dial on it, the corner shop, British Leyland, the pound note, bread sauce at Christmas, El Dorado, BBC 6 Music on DAB, the Empire, the coal and steel industry, the wooden walls of England, the thin red line and trust in the police. If you, sulcus, do not keep writing in your usual style my dictionary will be on this list.
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sulcus
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Quote: AntCity, Friday, 5 Mar 2010 12:58Well, I suppose it is a story but to me it feels more like opening lines for something longer or, alternatively, a poem. I suppose that fewer words allow you to reach the low attention span masses out there, clamouring for something to read, but next you will be using words with three or less letters. sulcus, you risk going commercial. If you continue to write like this who will use the far reaches of the English language? Who will stop those obscure units of meaning (had to use my Thesaurus for that) from fading into not even memory? The milkman, the pub, the Church of England, the Post Office, the telephone with a dial on it, the corner shop, British Leyland, the pound note, bread sauce at Christmas, El Dorado, BBC 6 Music on DAB, the Empire, the coal and steel industry, the wooden walls of England, the thin red line and trust in the police. If you, sulcus, do not keep writing in your usual style my dictionary will be on this list. see 'abscissa' above to put your mind at rest
"A,B&E", "Not In My Name" and "52FF" (flash fiction anthology) all available on Amazon Kindle"How a psychopath makes sweet love. I can get you ringside. Royal box even."
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