This writer runs the risk of tinkering with words as an amateur might.
Because this writer does not see their writing as a ‘central’ activity, writing constitutes an aspect of laziness when more central work should be undertaken.
Writing is very similar to sculpture though. Great ponderous words need to be assembled to make sense and induce meanings and feelings in the reader just like a sculpture needs good parts and good connections between them. Sweat is as likely a product of wordcraft as sculpturecraft, after all.
It gave me great pleasure and pride recently therefore, to have constructed a sentence which had sculptural qualities.
Addressed to Telstra, it was part of an attempt to have my brother’s phone reconnected.
To describe its qualities is to leave nothing to either the imagination or interpretation.
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