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Obsess? Who, me?
Uh, yeah. I'm currently obsessing. It doesn't help that I promised I would do 10 poems in June and one is due today! Aiiee!
Hey - just grab 14 lines at random and call it a sonnet.
It worked for Collins...
Alas, no. I think I'd probably be a better writer if I DID obsess a bit. I write every day. I think I'm more obsessed with writing every day than I am with writing something good every day. I think if I was more obsessed with quantity rather than quality, wrote less compulsively and more thoughtfully, I might actually write a poem worth something.
I do, on rare ocassion, carry a few lines around in my head for days. I like letting them live up there and change as I forget then reremember them.
I also scribble crap down before I go to bed and if I don't get around to transcribing it, it's almost like those poems I carry around in my head. They exist, yet they don't.
Got a line in my head right now about the moon.
I crashed my copter before the game even started. (sigh)
I miss Joust. It's the only arcade game I truly enjoyed. That and Frogger.
Have you seen the link to the Pollock site where you can create your own Pollock drippings? Or the Picasso face site? If not, I can lay those links on ya. They're fun.
Too (yeah, I do ramble on...), there's a cool site where you can erase wrods from a text provided to create a poem.
Lemme know if you wanna do something besides fly coptors. One of my coworks used to love that coptor game (or is it copter?). He's on his way to Iraq now to repair coptors. I hate seeing young men go over there.
I'm shutting up or I'll never stop.
But hey, I did wanna say that I love the photos you posted below.
Game links would be great, Laurel.
It doesn't take an idiot to figure out what you're saying, but I have. I'm too much of a perfectionist.
You're right. I should write and move on, but I go back and revise the life out of most poems. I'd write a therapeutic poem about the whole process, but I'd never finish it.
Thanks for liking the photos. I shot about 8 rolls that day and got about a dozen keepers.
I can't wait until pro quality digital camera bodies become affordable.
Are you a perfectionist? I wasn't saying that at all. I was too busy talking about myself. (smile)
And is there such a thing as too much of a perfectionist? I think it's a good thing to strive for perfection, don't you?
Here's the erasing poetry writing site:
Erasures
And the Picasso head site (which took a bit of trial and error before I figured out how the heck it works):
Picasso Head
And the Pollock, which I just played with now--gosh, I love it:
Pollock
I love the Erasures. That's a lot of fun digging through someone else's words in search of a poem.
And, oh, the Pollock. I swear, I could splatter color all over that blank canvas all day. I find it very right-brain, very relaxing....
Oh, and hey, hope you don't mind, but I added you to my list of blogs.
Thanks for the games, Laurel! You're a lifesaver. I spent 20 minutes playing "Lord of the Flies" at the Nobel lit site yesterday. I suspect it's a kiddie game, but I did spill the blood of the pig-god... so my time wasn't wasted.
I stuck a backlink up just in case somebody who clicked here from Plan Z needs to get back to you in a hurry. This blog has that effect on people.
Okay, so I got up to 1259. Some of those predicaments have to be impossible, it seems.
To get back at you for posting the copter thing, here's Spear Toss
Darn you, Rus.
I can't seem to break the 534.464 plateau...
Just got 2167, and I'm thinking the sky's the limit.
Rus, you are definitely the man.
I've gotten quite good at the spear toss game. I've hit 600 already.
I have to run way past the rocks to do so... but I'm more concerned with distance than with rules...
No, I don't obsess. I sometimes come back to a poem, but I usually focus intensely on a poem for a short time and then move on. I usually get the words in a rush, then I tweak them for anywhere from a few minutes to a few days, and that's it. This year I've been averaging a poem every two days. I find the quality is just as uneven as when I wrote less prolifically.
Bob, I tend to write maybe one passable poem every two weeks. Of those, I glean maybe 6 "good" poems per year.
I keep hoping I'll one day learn to turn a passable poem into a good poem... but it hasn't happened so far. Your method may be best.