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
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> 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 �
>
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