scriptomaniac
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scriptomania
An uncontrollable urge to write. Someone who, at whatever time of day or night, just has to write, in case that creative urge evaporates like vapour on desert road. Once seen yet quickly forgotten.
To be passionate about your prose, as only a writer knows, is when your blessed or perhaps cursed with scriptomania.
scriptomania by HookBeak66 March 26, 2022
fogey
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)