Category Archives: Writing in General
I Live to Be a Ray of Sunshine in My 5 Readers’ Lives…
Summer is a drag. Especially this summer. All my friends seem to be gone. Karen is in Oxford, England; Bob is not on campus. There’s drama brewing in GPS; Chickenpinata is damn near defunct thanks to a mass exodus of … Continue reading
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Revision? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Revision!
Actually, that’s not true. I’ve been writing a bit lately, doing my usual 10 or so drafts before I show the DYPS (our writing group), and then when I show it to them, they offer about 4000 changes I need … Continue reading
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What’s the Point?
I don’t think anything I’m writing is worthwhile. I don’t feel like I’m growing as a poet. I’ve just… had it.
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When Good Poems Go Bad
I’ve been working on this poem that just isn’t going well. Going well? Try, not going at all. Well, let me back up. As I said in my last post, this poem, called “The Art of Loss,” was to … Continue reading
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CVWC Recap
Friday afternoon and all day Saturday, I was at the Chattahoochee Valley Writers Conference in Columbus, whose focus is both to celebrate the literary heritage in the area (i.e. Nunnaly Johnson and Carson McCullers), and to engage and develop the … Continue reading
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I Can Has Poem Plz?
Today has not been successful when it comes to writing–as in, no poem writing has taken place. Part of the problem was I really couldn’t decide which picture to use–there were two about Orpheus, who, because he was known for … Continue reading
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On Prose Poems
I was reading Christine Swint’s blog; she had posted her Day 6 Poem of the APPF, and I marvel at how she responds both to a poem she read by Lucia Perillo and takes ideas and creates a wonderful new … Continue reading
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Writing with a Weak Will
I needed to write a poem today for the APPF, but I didn’t. I had a migraine for most of the day, and when I didn’t have a migraine, I didn’t feel like writing a poem. And now it’s 20 … Continue reading
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