long-windedness (when referring to speech or writing); using too many words; tediously lengthy
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@thecrumpet.bsky.social
October 19 #WIPsnips: “friend”
Yes, it’s long, but Kit’s despair at losing Gisele—a devotee of both modern dance and Randian Objectivism—is vast. He requires WORDS, many of them, okay? A man is entitled to prolixity in his hour of misery! A snip from my #WIP “Surface Tension."
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The Yale Review
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"He was capable of taking off from the point of his own minor perversities—procrastination, prolixity—and supplying a far darker setting for them." Emily Ogden on Poe’s imagination.
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Ron Jeffries
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Hello, loves!
I really thought today's session would go perfectly. It was OK. But not perfect. Ah well.
Better Pathing
If we draw suite paths in the right order, it should give us the layout we want with no extra work. A nice idea, doesn't quite work. Herein we eschew pompous prolixity […]
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