Yes, to William's post and Sheenagh - the trick is to write and be damned.
The best thing about this forum, is the diversity of opinion. We have had
some great debates of late, and if we were all alike and agreed with each
other it would be very boring!
I am finding also, that this forum is a great way to practice your writing.
I wrote a poem in one afternoon and posted it on the list and good a great
response. It was even critiqued. This is stimulating. I also find to back up
an objective argument that I wish to discuss, I go back to my uni notes and
find I am shuffling through lever, after lever arch files finding that 'oh,
where was it? scenario'
It's good to have this communal ground. I doubt that other genre writers
have this!
Best
Helen
>From: "William Herbert" <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Le clique, ce n'est pas chic
>Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 11:03:03 +0100
>
>Dear Sheenagh,
>
>I don't think many of us know each other personally outside the list (it's
>that old separate continents thing), and use the list to begin to discover
>stuff -- opinions, poetry. Mostly we get opinions, but there's also the (to
>me) fascinating glimpses of the poetry scenes elsewhere. There's also a
>great deal of divergence of said opinions on most topics raised, which I
>for
>one appreciate and enjoy. A lot of people who don't know each other very
>well and don't agree with each other either -- doesn't sound like a clique
>to me, but maybe it takes time to experience what degree of diversity there
>is. I suspect 'cliquey' is always going to be the tough way to say 'hello'.
>But hello anyway.
>
>As for how often I'm posting: guilty and ashamed. My university term
>finished a fortnight ago, since when I've been feverishly 'returning' to my
>own work and some projects that have been set aside for rather too long.
>The
>list operates at the moment for me as a frequent refuge from the Wall
>(Hadrian's rather than the Floyd's), which I'm variously climbing, banging
>my skull off, vaulting over, chucking stuff over, being hit on the head by
>stuff someone else who is possibly me is chucking over, and marching up and
>down squinting at the shrubbery from. No-one else is nearby, though Jo
>Shapcott was at that Temple of Mithras a couple of months back. They didn't
>let her in -- cliquey Roman military spectral bastards!
>
>Anyone else want to describe how they're contributing at present?
>
>Best,
>
>
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