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a collective noun for a very specific form of collective insanity

Apparently there is no officially recognised collective noun for a group of writers. I think that's quite a fun idea to play around with. Anyone else?

By Roderick MakimPublished about 23 hours ago 1 min read
According to FB, I had this thought 11 years ago. Finally time to make it a poem.

...

A paragraph,

A page,

A pretension,

A poverty.

...

A procrastination,

A punctuation,

A penmanship,

A prosperity.

...

Or

Perhaps another letter

Might fit this collective

Better?

...

A scrawl,

A scribbling,

A deadline,

A dabbling.

...

A chapter,

A letter,

An inkblot,

A scrabbling.

...

What word in all the world

Could best describe the

Fight -

The endless wrangling wrestle

Of ideas into stories

For everyone who

Writes?

...

A passion,

A dream,

A damnation,

A QWERTY.

...

A madness,

A blindness,

A blessing,

A reverie.

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About the Creator

Roderick Makim

Read one too many adventure stories as a child and decided I'd make that my life.

I grew up on a cattle station in the Australian Outback and decided to spend the rest of my life seeing the rest of the world.

For more: www.roderickmakim.com

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  • Roderick Makim (Author)about 12 hours ago

    Damnit. I forgot to fit "a block" or "a forgery" in the list somewhere. Maybe in the next draft when I'm putting this year's worth of poems into my next book...

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