Peter Cudmore wrote:
>Do writers KNOW when their words cause shivery stirring?
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>Up to a point. Sometimes you come up with a way of saying something that you
>feel ought to make shivers, but its still up to the reader to do the
>shivering.
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May not be the same thing, but I've had the Gift moments where something
in my own writing got to me--usually conclusions, sometimes other
moments. There was one longish poem of mine that I could not read at
features or open mikes because I could not even read it aloud to
myself--I'd lose it.
ken
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Kenneth Wolman http://kenwolman.com http://kenwolman.blogspot.com
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"Only silence is shame."--Bartolomeo Vanzetti
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