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There is a saying in writer’s workshops: Kill All Your Poodles. A “Poodle” is some bit of wordcraft that you, their writer, are in love with; a sentence or metaphor that you wrote and think is precious. “Wow,” you say to yourself, “Nobody has ever written anything more beautiful in the English language than what I just wrote [...] Do the angels whisper them to you, or is it just plagiarism?
(The first in a series where I, The Great Vivo, answer your questions about the meaning of life.) Thank you for asking, Myrtle, or Persephone, or what ever your name is. Jeeze, I hope it’s not Tiffany because I have sworn to never speak to anyone [...] |
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