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by the way, i sprawled all over Horrendous County this evening. i'm trying to think of the highest compliment i can pay you... i am extremely particular about who i say this to... your writing makes me want to write and to never stop reading.

:rose:
 
Aw thanks.
It's definitely the long and winding road I've spent a long time searching for. Pretty soon it can start twisting and spreading all over the place. Five or seven more pieces.
 
hmmnmm said:
Aw thanks.
It's definitely the long and winding road I've spent a long time searching for. Pretty soon it can start twisting and spreading all over the place. Five or seven more pieces.
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good. concentrate on letting it go wherever it wants and ignore advice to the contrary. enjoy the ride :) :rose:
 
Oh I interviewed my wife about her linguistic learning experiences. Apparently Strunk & White never made it to the classrooms she attended. Now, at university level she majored in journalism and worked several years in radio and television, and true, in that situation, the preference is for the tight and informative, cut out the superfluities. But besides that, she says there was not the discouragement of metaphor and descriptives and lengthy examinations of whatever. The cute little irony of it all, is that her writing leans more towards the to-the-point tight, while mine's more rambly and she said the other day she thought she was actually more american than me, which she reminded me of during the interview about her linguistic learning experiences.

Again, I personally don't think any is better than another. I think they're all good, like a bunch of barrels full of different colors and shapes to pick from... it's just that it seems instead of enjoying the entire array it's like just one or two are encouraged as the accepted and the others discouraged. And then these prejudices get passed along. The lines blur between what we really think and what some supposed authority says we should think.
 
wildsweetone said:
good. concentrate on letting it go wherever it wants and ignore advice to the contrary. enjoy the ride :) :rose:
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It's pretty long, which was part of the idea of putting some longer sections up in the prose department, just to move it along a little; but I don't think it would really fit up there.

And actually if I think of it like a comic strip, and each little piece corresponds to a frame or a strip, that just goes on and on... then the 'poetic' pieces don't cause as much guilt.

So it'll be the winter project.
 
i just have to tell you this before i go for the night... a couple of weeks ago i went to a Professional Minute Takers workshop... where secretaries learn how to take minutes of meetings (do you know what i mean). well, there were lots of exercises where people waffled on and we had to take notes and condense their verbiage into succinct statements. i found it incredibly easy! i have to say it relates directly to the leanness of the poetry writing i've been doing in the last few years. taking a big theme and narrowing it down into the important stuff so the essential message gets across.

in a way, you're doing it with your Horrendous County writings too. not as lean and statement-y as some poets... in fact i almost get the impression you've tried on a pair of tight jeans (the first HC) and have wriggled and bent in them to help the material stretch comfortably (the next few) into the nooks and crannies and now you've worn them all day, you are beginning to fill out those remaining wrinkles in the denim. [if i were any good at metaphor i could rewrite that to make sense ;) ]

:rose:
ps have you ever sat down and cut individual sentences of a newspaper item and then put them back in the correct order of events as they happened? it's a very odd experience to see how a journalist contorts time in order to put the most interesting pieces of information first.
 
bluerains said:
tulip represents a perfect lover, fame, love, passion, luck and is the flower emblem of Holland. A red tulip usually means believe me or a declaration of love.
So to would seem you are pulled to the perfection of LOVE...sigh...
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It's a nice thought but there was precious little of that around!
 
wildsweetone said:
i just have to tell you this before i go for the night... a couple of weeks ago i went to a Professional Minute Takers workshop... where secretaries learn how to take minutes of meetings (do you know what i mean). well, there were lots of exercises where people waffled on and we had to take notes and condense their verbiage into succinct statements. i found it incredibly easy! i have to say it relates directly to the leanness of the poetry writing i've been doing in the last few years. taking a big theme and narrowing it down into the important stuff so the essential message gets across.

in a way, you're doing it with your Horrendous County writings too. not as lean and statement-y as some poets... in fact i almost get the impression you've tried on a pair of tight jeans (the first HC) and have wriggled and bent in them to help the material stretch comfortably (the next few) into the nooks and crannies and now you've worn them all day, you are beginning to fill out those remaining wrinkles in the denim. [if i were any good at metaphor i could rewrite that to make sense ;) ]

:rose:
ps have you ever sat down and cut individual sentences of a newspaper item and then put them back in the correct order of events as they happened? it's a very odd experience to see how a journalist contorts time in order to put the most interesting pieces of information first.
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Professional Minute Taker. Catchy. Like it.

Hi, I'm a Professional Minute Taker. May I come in and check your minutes? It'll just take a minute.


Oh and I prefer loose clothing to tight clothing. Wearing it anyway. See, that's something: on the right body tight apparel can be very pleasing to look at, but uncomfortable for the one so tightly appareled. Unless you're maybe out advertising. See what you can catch, come home and get back into the comfort of looseness. Interesting parallel.
 
wildsweetone said:
:rose:
ps have you ever sat down and cut individual sentences of a newspaper item and then put them back in the correct order of events as they happened? it's a very odd experience to see how a journalist contorts time in order to put the most interesting pieces of information first.
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No I never did that.
But I once upon a time enjoyed setting up two seemingly unrelated paragraphs or sentences, and then see about trying to connect the two so they become related. Which, like most joys, I'd forgotten about, until just yesterday: I found a paragraph that did not seem to have anything to do with the previous or the subsequent. Couldn't remember why it was written and put there. Knew there had to be a reason, but just couldn't remember. Now, in the days between December 2004 and yesterday, I probably would've just cut it out, which I almost did. But then I recalled what I once enjoyed doing, and instead of cutting it went for a deep exploratory search for some sort of thread, tiny as it might be, to delicately pull out, and weave it to the previous, and then try to find a second and weave it to the one after. Lo and behold, whole different windows and possibilities began to open up, and I remembered other sections that were unfinished, so I went and copied them and pasted them into the addition.

Zigzag!

That's even better than Horrendous.

Ha! That's it!

Route Zigzag.
'
Or RR Zigzag

or Zigzag Highway

Hwy Zigzag

a'ziggin'an'a'zaggin

a-ziggin-an-a-zaggin
 
I have a confession to make, a lot of my online friends use the facebook farm game and dragged me onto it and it's taken over! I haven't written a thing since I started doing it and I'm supposed to be doing a peice for Champs thread by the 28th!
 
Went and got my nails done today so I can type again thanks goodness. I thought oh good I can get down to catching up with my poetry now but no such luck now my sister has invited herself to stay from tomorrow!
 
first snow
didn't stick
but it was

wood stove
settle in
frequent
plot-free
ejaculations
the winter long
 
UnderYourSpell said:
An orgy could be acceptable ...... I've never tried one before
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Me neither. Likely never will. I like the word, orgy. Orgy. It's one of many wonderful worlds for the fantasy crews to live in, work, plow, build, but I'm pretty sure if a real one appeared I'd politely excuse myself. I mean, what would the boys who work the fantasy fields 24-7 do with themselves? They'd be out of work, feel unappreciated, maybe go away... so limited experience is actually okay.

Hi sassy!
 
hmmnmm said:
Me neither. Likely never will. I like the word, orgy. Orgy. It's one of many wonderful worlds for the fantasy crews to live in, work, plow, build, but I'm pretty sure if a real one appeared I'd politely excuse myself. I mean, what would the boys who work the fantasy fields 24-7 do with themselves? They'd be out of work, feel unappreciated, maybe go away... so limited experience is actually okay.

Hi sassy!
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If participating one could always move on if the designated first partner wasn't 'doing' it for you but I suppose there's always the worry of being the one that is left
 
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