'Allow the writing to lead.' Wise advice.
On 16 October 2013 08:25, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Fun comes afterwards, Pat, especially where I see poetryetc - or is it
> you? - has entered question marks for my apostrophes and dashes!
>
> Bill
>
> > On 16 Oct 2013, at 7:51 am, Patrick McManus <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > Bill what no fun????? Shame Sounds like a masochist -P in sympathy -I
> like the challenge messing about playing -you can write in a deckchair in
> the sun with a nice cuppa even a bickie
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Bill Wootton
> > Sent: 15 October 2013 21:22
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Getting ready to write
> >
> > Getting ready to write
> >
> > First clean the teeth.
> > Don�t want an unclean mouth clogging the creative juices.
> > Next warm the hands by the fire;
> > those fingers will be cooling down soon no matter how fast you type.
> > Now survey the seat, adjust the height.
> > Brace.
> > Place hands above keyboard;
> > now let the right index finger descend where it will.
> > Others will follow - you are away.
> >
> > But what�s this? Why
> > are you stopping already?
> > That jiggling is unproductive,
> > that nose does not need picking,
> > the back of the seat is as comfortable
> > as it has ever been;
> > didn�t bother you one bit
> > when you were answering emails
> > or downloading music a minute ago.
> >
> > Get back on board. Pause not.
> > The thing is to get ahead of yourself.
> > Allow the writing to lead. You will follow
> > in its wake, amazed at what emerges.
> > It�s not fun. No one likes writing,
> > as Dorothy Parker observed. What�s to like is �having written�.
> > The blend most of us seek is an admixture
> > of the personal and the prompted.
> > Don�t stop now � you may be on to something �
> >
> >
>
--
Andrew
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'Undercover of Lightness'
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