Thanks very much Judy.
I know i am windy, and as soon as i hit send or read back what i have
written online, the mistakes glare out like a Big Issue seller's face when
being patronised by an anti-intellectual drip with a shed - and what really
is only an experiement, has failed because just one error makes it a draft
rather than a finished piece.
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The net is a great dumping ground in which to serve an apprenticeship, as it
gives just the right amount of live-publishing dynamic to us, and cuts out
the middle bit of having to submit to a publisher, a species who have within
theior ranks some of the most viciously unpleasant petty mided tossers one
could ever hope not to meet.
Knowing their is an online audience (even if it's only competiting bores) -
unlike releasing a page from the printer and no one reading, the fact a
potential audience is there, invests in the composition stage, an ingrediant
of excitement absent when writing knowing only your mum's gonna read it.
I always remember a caveat i should have put in after i've hit send, one
short line which offers a context in which the failure's can be cast and
which would make all the difference.
The long poem which appeared at the end of an already (by poetryetc
standards) very long post in the previous deposit, i have read only once
live, at a half hour reading in Cork which was recorded, and as a fifteen
minute verbal object - it stands on its own two feet -- but on the page it
is still in draft stage. Something i already knew and when putting int he
post yesterday, did so as the latest attempt in the editorial stage of
trying to get it nailed in print.
It's only in the last year and more that i have come to understand the most
efficient way to make use of line-breaks, and after spamming (literally)
thousands of words a day for the last two years in a process of clarfying in
print the unique research material i have spent five years post-grad on
imbibing, (and mostly failing) - I have acquired at chemical level (as the
American feminist and poet Annie Finch terms it) - a fluency of being able
to draw on all the writing tools and tricks in the theatrical bag of Letters
a language artist need learn if we are in any way gonna get read by anyone
other than those in the same huddle sharing a similar Poetic.
thanks very much for allowing me the excuse of having another go.
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