Hey hey! Smile!

As much as a lost love hurts and brings beautiful mournful poetry, be sure to not dwell to much on the fact.

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Words are my paint, and the pen is my brush

~ *getLIT ~*WordCount ~ *Adopt-A-Writer ~ *Writers-Workshop ~

thank you for the well meant advice.

Most are months, some a year or more, old. Its what I use a notebook for I dig them out of the archives, and revise them.

I often rehash them - clarifying the theme or emotion-node I am presenting, inject the pieces with phrases I have found now, or with the flavor of a conversation I have recently had. This helps them seem fresher to me, instead of stale old feelings revisited.

a friend *IslandJoe has tried to teach me (though he may not take credit for it) to set a piece aside, and revise it, to edit, and in general, to just - write better overall.

so, very little I post is written as 'current' feelings.

I am glad you see the humor necessary to counter such as this though. it took me a while



be well

John

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Do not be angry. Do not worry, Be grateful, Work with integrity, Be kind to others.

Oh - I love going through old pieces and editing/revising them - making them better. "Everlasting Hell" is one of the pieces I revised. I will have to post the original one in scraps perhaps, so you can see the first then second edition ^.^

A lot of people don't realize that a large part of writing is going back and editing/rewriting pieces from the past and making them better. It builds respect and admiration - if you have the courage to go to such lengths.

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Words are my paint, and the pen is my brush

~ *getLIT ~*WordCount ~ *Adopt-A-Writer ~ *Writers-Workshop ~

Once I was one of those poets who liked the 'raw fresh I already wrote it and moved on' attitude. *IslandJoe, ~daffodils, ~poetic-abortion and others, by way of watching their work evolve, convinced me that there might be something to it.

So I read about it, and tried it and went through the normal period of doing then not doing it then I downloaded a lecture on revising poetry given by Ginsberg at Berkeley in the 60's and was hooked.

revising stuff is almost as much fun as writing it in the first place

I have found that I do like to bounce it off a live person, run through my intent of theme and reasons for choices but I am trying very hard to not do that anymore. I go through a lot of friends once they see the inner workings of my head



HA! bet you weren't expecting a long rambling response to such a simple statement



John

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Do not be angry. Do not worry, Be grateful, Work with integrity, Be kind to others.

Hey, I enjoy intelligent conversations and thought bouncings ^.^ You don't often get them in places such as this - where a comment usually consists of "Good Job!" lol

I am gonna start adding some of the originals to my edited pieces in scraps - so people can see the transition and what good it does. I support going back and editing - especially poetry - because it is your thoughts and ideas, and they constantly evolve and your writing always improving, so why not bring some of your older pieces up to your current position.

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Words are my paint, and the pen is my brush

~ *getLIT ~*WordCount ~ *Adopt-A-Writer ~ *Writers-Workshop ~

I think if you dig deep in my comments and my journals you will find a tendency to extreme wordiness.

I have been told that my journals aren't a casual read, and that I should lighten up a bit so people can stop by for a quick and once in a while...

my reply was, "I thought I was..."

but a lot of the folk that read and comments around me, or that I go to tends to jump right into the deep end, or not, freely and as they see fit.

Feel like swimming?



oh, sometimes we just say "Good Job!" too

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Do not be angry. Do not worry, Be grateful, Work with integrity, Be kind to others.

Always ^.^ I haven't started in on writing Journals yet - I am never good a keeping up with them, but I am also trying to teach myself CSS It will drive me nuts <.<

We should play a word game on the forums - flood it and laugh lol

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Words are my paint, and the pen is my brush

~ *getLIT ~*WordCount ~ *Adopt-A-Writer ~ *Writers-Workshop ~

oh NO.o.o.o.o.

I will not foray into the forums ever again. all the ugly things about the net lurk there!!

Been there - done that - those folk are BRUTAL and tend to be a real PIA.

as for word games *sly-look* I know a good one, but we should play by email or IM or something johnpreed@cox.net *rubs-hands together*



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Do not be angry. Do not worry, Be grateful, Work with integrity, Be kind to others.

haha - I certainly don't blame you. Nasty place indeed lol Silly teenagers -.-

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Words are my paint, and the pen is my brush

~ *getLIT ~*WordCount ~ *Adopt-A-Writer ~ *Writers-Workshop ~