screed
noun
1. a long discourse or essay, especially a diatribe.
2. an informal letter, account, or other piece of writing.
3. Building Trades.
a. a strip of plaster or wood applied to a surface to be plastered to serve as a guide for making a true surface.
b. a wooden strip serving as a guide for making a true level surface on a concrete pavement or the like.
c. a board or metal strip dragged across a freshly poured concrete slab to give it its proper level.
4. British Dialect . a fragment or shred, as of cloth.
5. Scot.
a. a tear or rip, especially in cloth.
b. a drinking bout.
verb
6. Scot. to tear, rip, or shred, as cloth.
I found myself looking around at my desk at work for a pen and paper. I didn’t have a poem in my head or a Hallmark card saying I needed to write, or even a quote I wanted to remember and blurt out at parties as though I hadn’t rehearsed it five times before…
I didn’t have the need for perverse punctuation time rhythm or form line
breaks or caesura. I just wanted space and line – to smell ink on pen. To write a love letter! To who? To tree? Too deep. To Mother Nature and all other likely incantations for their likely existence on my creativity? Too cliché.
My love letter is to Dictionary.com and it’s inspiration for me to write. To write blog pieces based upon the words my bulk emails give me in my appreciable inbox at work. Now that’s contemporary writing.
So I’ve decided to post my word of the day from Dictionary.com here on my blog everyday for a month for a writing exercise as my “February Is Writing Challenge Month!” Blogs are a great way to share your work and a great way to workshop pieces. Let’s see what pieces (Poetry, Short Fiction, Prose, whatever your heart desires) you all come up with! I’ll post, too!
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