"Plan your work, work your plan" (1900)

Arnold M. Zwicky zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU
Sun Jun 5 15:58:34 UTC 2005


On Jun 5, 2005, at 6:57 AM, Alison Murie wrote:

>> From Bapopik's post:
>>
> Planning Your Story/Game
> ... So, what's the consensus? Plan your work and work your plan?
> Plan it
> but then
> wing it? Or just wail away at the keyboard and see what happens? ...
> rec.arts.int-fiction - Jun 5 1994, 12:30 pm by Bob Newell - 4
> messages - 4
> authors
> ...
> "wail away"....?

lovely.  now added to the eggcorn database, as "whale" >> "wail",
especially in "wait away at".

arnold



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