Lots of poetry this week ( Read more... )

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I really need more time between work and the shows on Wednesday nights.  I got off at 6, dumped all the gear in my car when I got home and got to the venue a little after 7:00.  Because we start at 8:00 now come hell or high water to accomodate the long lists, I'm setting up a lot earlier.  Because I'm DJing the nights, I have more to set up.  No ( Read more... )

I am crafting a found poem made up of nothing but Bob Ross quotes.  Of course, it's a love poem, silly.

You want to see me do a form poem?  There's your form poem, sucker.

Must write new poems for slam tonight.  Wrote two that don't meet the Woods standard.  Finishing one that's got legs.  Need two more just to be safe.

Today will fly as a result.

In Stephen King's On Writing, the master storyteller recommends a six-week no-look period after having written a first draft of a novel; that you should give yourself time to get cold on the document and re-approach it with new eyes.  "It's always easier," he writes "to kill someone else's darlings than it is to kill your own."

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I can't find my old notes for this novel.
I'm going to have to oultine parts of it again so I don't feel like I'm floating in the ocean.
Some writers just write stories as they come to them.  I am not one of those writers.

Argh! 

Something about the exercise that people have been mentioning is to "not expect it to be worth anything."  I can't write like that.  When I THINK I'm wirting piss-poor, I don't write much.  When I THINK I'm writing something worth something, I write more.  At the same time, I'm a regular writer, so maybe this is information designed mostly to keep ( Read more... )