The time isn't available to leave the kind of thoughtful comment I want to, but I have to at least tell you how touching this was and how I felt that carefully orchestrated build up to poignancy was so effectively and skillful woven out of simple moments given their rightful weight.
I always look forward to and love your comments because of your perceptiveness, and really this is fine! :D Although, you make it sound like I'm consciously sitting and weaving things together, planning poignant moments, which is such a huge compliment, when really I was just scribbling it in my Literature notebook between classes. I was worried about how well it would work, overall, but so far people seem to like it, so I thank you!
(I was particularly annoyed because the first line and about half of it wrote itself in my head while I was dozing in the train on the way to school, and when I got there and took out pen and paper it had gone, it was like trying to recapture a dream).
>you make it sound like I'm consciously sitting and weaving things together, planning poignant moments, which is such a huge compliment, when really I was just scribbling<
A certain amount of craft is a good thing,but a poet, say, who spends more time counting the rhyme scheme than in the content and expression, has a pretty dead poem. The preparation can be given as much care with instinct.
>took out pen and paper it had gone, it was like trying to recapture a dream<
Groan. TELL me about it! You're far from alone in that experience and I deal with it not only in writing but in art.
But you turned out something well done even with the frustration!
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Lovely as well as sad.
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(I was particularly annoyed because the first line and about half of it wrote itself in my head while I was dozing in the train on the way to school, and when I got there and took out pen and paper it had gone, it was like trying to recapture a dream).
Thank you so much for the comment!
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A certain amount of craft is a good thing,but a poet, say, who spends more time counting the rhyme scheme than in the content and expression, has a pretty dead poem. The preparation can be given as much care with instinct.
>took out pen and paper it had gone, it was like trying to recapture a dream<
Groan. TELL me about it! You're far from alone in that experience and I deal with it not only in writing but in art.
But you turned out something well done even with the frustration!
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