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Bud Grossmann's
Words of the Week
Week of May 1, 2005
Published as a WIP dated November 20, 2001
© 2001 by Bud Grossmann. All Rights Reserved.
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Clarke Avenue Nairobi Blues, 1969
© 1969 by Bud Grossmann
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SOME OF WHAT I TRY TO AVOID
IN MY WRITING
Matters that go without saying.
Certain naughty words.
Things that (knock on wood) might prove unlucky.
Things I've forgotten.
Confidences.
The tragic.
The inexpressible.
Stories with flaccid punch lines.
Theological speculations.
Stories that put me in a bad light.
Fat and low-fat.
Anecdotes that are incubating.
Whatever I can't see through my tears.
The unthinkable.
Possibly the impossible.
The adverb literally.
The patently implausible.
Things best left unsaid.
The demonstrably untrue.
Double-entendres.
And those few topics untouched by Kenneth Starr.
Unworthy thoughts.
Sports.
The indefensible.
Concepts beyond comprehension.
Criminal schemes.
Blasphemies.
Persons beneath our contempt.
Irony.
Secrets.
Matters of inconsequence.
That which is conspicuously absent from this list.
Stolen stories, if I think you'll catch me.
Almost anything requiring courage.
Music.
Unmentionables.
What other authors have said better.
You-know.
What seems unseemly, such as writing of writers writing on writing.
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