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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 �