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Great little tale, Tad. I don't know if I can remember such a moment as such. Oddly, I got your note after I got responses to it, & that has been true of a bunch of others today as well. Oh well, perhaps that's a cut-up technique the site is 'practicing' all on its own.... Doug On 21-Aug-07, at 10:56 AM, TheOldMole wrote: > It is the truth. But you do know some things. I remember that it > happened to me, when I was at Iowa. My second or third year there, > certainly not my first. I spent a lot of time floundering. And then, > between one poem and the next, I suddenly discovered that I was > writing poetry. Everything before had been self-indulgence; that was a > poem. And it turned out others thought so too -- it was published in > /Poetry/. (Not by Harriet Monroe -- I'm not /that /old.) And I think > this may be happening to Lynda. > > Probably the best description I've ever read of that revelation that > one is suddenly seeing through the eye of an artist is in Chaim > Potok's /My Name is Asher Lev/. > > It doesn't mean you're in like Flynn. But it does mean you've passed > through a portal. And it's not a portal everyone passes through, and > that's why everyone here is so thrilled for you. > > Another old saw but a true one -- a writer is a person for whom > writing is a whole lot harder than it is for anyone else. > > Kenneth Wolman wrote: >> TheOldMole wrote: >>> >>> I asked how can you ever be sure >>> that what you write is really >>> any good at all and he said you can't >>> >>> you can't you can never be sure >>> you die without knowing >>> whether anything you wrote was any good >>> if you have to be sure don't write >> >> The God's honest truth. Not because you can but because you fear you >> can't. >> >> k >> >> -------------------- >> Ken Wolman rainermaria.typepad.com >> >> We're neither pure, nor wise, nor good >> We'll do the best we know. >> We'll build our house and chop our wood >> And make our garden grow... >> >> Bernstein/Wilbur, "Candide" >> > > -- > Tad Richards > http://www.opus40.org/tadrichards/ > http://opusforty.blogspot.com/ > > Douglas Barbour 11655 - 72 Avenue NW Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9 (780) 436 3320 http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 Every time Dick Cheney smiles an angel in heaven gets waterboarded. Jon Stewart