"Since I don't write for a living, I can afford to be picky about what I show to others." Well that just about puts those of us who earn a living through their writing into perspective. As a journalist I always think that most people believe we are just filling in the spaces between the adverts with trivia. But as someone who also often listens to this argument from students I find a really solid deadline works wonders on a persons writing ability. The quality of a piece is something I find emerges in the rewrites and the editing and I don't think blocks of any sort stop that process. Jim =========================================================================== DOWN IN LIVERPOOL - NEW CD - FROM JIM BENNETT "an authentic voice bringing the sound of beat to Liverpool" Buy it now £8.99 on line from http://www.mp3fm.co.uk/ or available from your record store. ========================================================================== =========================================================================== Jim Bennett - Homepage http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/1127/ Lollipop - small poetry publishers. http://www.indigogroup.co.uk/llpp PK Poetry List http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/9952/index.htm ===========================================================================