Help! I can't keep track of my poems!

[annaswirls]

Okay this is a plea for help. For suggestions. Anything!


Since December I have written um like 300 poems.
Many are little ones and many suck, so more like 200 lol.

Most of them are rough and dirty.
They need to be cleaned up, polished a bit,
some need to be taken out to pasture
put out of their misery.

I brainstorm at passion,
revise some at my livejournal,
post some on lit, some elsewhere
revise more,
forget to re-submit revisions to lit,
print some, not others,
workshop at another place,

These bastards are all over the place and I cannot keep track of them!

I am trying to get organized so I can be more serious about finding homes for them on ezines, etc.

But I am like,

OKAY where oh where is the last revision??

There are too many to keep track of!
Sometimes I cannot even remember the freaking title!

How do you do it?
Will you come clean up my files????

 

[tarablackwood22]

ROFL......it's no wonder everyone loves you so much!

Here's what I try to do.

1) Give every poem, no matter its stage of development, a title. The title need not be appropriate or final, but it gives the poem its own name for filing purposes.

2) I keep separate desktop folders for:
a) completed work
b) nearly completed work that needs polishing
c) work in progress
d) ideas

3) Back up all work on disc (which I have to do. My zip drive broke months ago. Losing the work by having only one copy would be an unspeakable disaster!!)

I'm going to the store now to buy one.!!

 

[sandspike]

focus.......

Like the old lady in the shoe you have too many children.
Try cutting back to 3 poems a week. After you finish one
go back two days later and edit the hell out of it. Write
each poem in a different color and only use three pens, blk,
white and red. If you feel the need to start a 4th poem just
remember all the lost poems out there and reframe. Giving
birth to a poem is a serious undertaking, remember you are not
a rabbit.

 

[Guest]

ROFL......it's no wonder everyone loves you so much!

Here's what I try to do.

1) Give every poem, no matter its stage of development, a title. The title need not be appropriate or final, but it gives the poem its own name for filing purposes.

2) I keep separate desktop folders for:
a) completed work
b) nearly completed work that needs polishing
c) work in progress
d) ideas

3) Back up all work on disc (which I have to do. My zip drive broke months ago. Losing the work by having only one copy would be an unspeakable disaster!!)

I'm going to the store now to buy one.!!

I do that as well with both poetry and stories. It keeps you honest because all you have to do is mouse over the folder and it will tell you the number of completed works and the ones that are not. My poerty folder with completed work out weighs the inprogress—complete opposite of my stories though

Like anna, I post my poems everywhere... I think it's an addiction. Where can you get help for that?


- neo

 

[annaswirls]

Re: focus.......

Like the old lady in the shoe you have too many children.
Try cutting back to 3 poems a week. After you finish one
go back two days later and edit the hell out of it. Write
each poem in a different color and only use three pens, blk,
white and red. If you feel the need to start a 4th poem just
remember all the lost poems out there and reframe. Giving
birth to a poem is a serious undertaking, remember you are not
a rabbit.

Discipline?? Moi?

I can't help it I AM a bunny I am what I am!!!



okay its a cat but it looks like a bunny to me.

hmmm maybe I can write my spontaneous poems without editing, go back and edit the ones that look promising

but
the bunny thing just makes me want to go out and have more


:wiggling nose:
:shakin' tail:
:hippity hop down the bunny trail:

so are you going to come clean out my files or what

 

[annaswirls]

ROFL......it's no wonder everyone loves you so much!

Here's what I try to do.

1) Give every poem, no matter its stage of development, a title. The title need not be appropriate or final, but it gives the poem its own name for filing purposes.

2) I keep separate desktop folders for:
a) completed work
b) nearly completed work that needs polishing
c) work in progress
d) ideas

3) Back up all work on disc (which I have to do. My zip drive broke months ago. Losing the work by having only one copy would be an unspeakable disaster!!)

I'm going to the store now to buy one.!!

I'll lend you my zip drive if you come clean up my desktop

 

[annaswirls]

I do that as well with both poetry and stories. It keeps you honest because all you have to do is mouse over the folder and it will tell you the number of completed works and the ones that are not. My poerty folder with completed work out weighs the inprogress—complete opposite of my stories though

Like anna, I post my poems everywhere... I think it's an addiction. Where can you get help for that?


- neo

hmmm sowing your poet seeds across the universe

do they ever write back?

so when're you comin to clean up my desktop?

 

[Tathagata]

ROFL......it's no wonder everyone loves you so much!

Here's what I try to do.

1) Give every poem, no matter its stage of development, a title. The title need not be appropriate or final, but it gives the poem its own name for filing purposes.

2) I keep separate desktop folders for:
a) completed work
b) nearly completed work that needs polishing
c) work in progress
d) ideas

3) Back up all work on disc (which I have to do. My zip drive broke months ago. Losing the work by having only one copy would be an unspeakable disaster!!)

I'm going to the store now to buy one.!!

Ok students...now that we've defined " anal" behavior...

 

[WickedEve]

Here's what I try to do.

1) Give every poem, no matter its stage of development, a title. The title need not be appropriate or final, but it gives the poem its own name for filing purposes.

2) I keep separate desktop folders for:
a) completed work
b) nearly completed work that needs polishing
c) work in progress
d) ideas

3) Back up all work on disc (which I have to do. My zip drive broke months ago. Losing the work by having only one copy would be an unspeakable disaster!!)

Someone needs to take a switch to you, tara. My poems are in my email's draft folder. It's a mess. Like anna, I have 100s just lazing about with potbellies, waiting for me to work them out.
Hmm... potbelly poetry...

 

[Tathagata]

Hmm... potbelly poetry...

why you lookin' at me??

 

[tarablackwood22]

Ok students...now that we've defined " anal" behavior...

I like when you say 'anal'.

Monkey.

 

[WickedEve]

why you lookin' at me??

You have a paranoid monkey on your back.

 

[tarablackwood22]

Someone needs to take a switch to you, tara.

This makes me all squirmy, Eve.

 

[Tathagata]

I like when you say 'anal'.

Monkey.

you realize you'll regret saying that...
when you pm box has 1500 messages and they all just say
"anal"

 

[Tathagata]

You have a paranoid monkey on your back.

this heroin will get rid of him....

 

[Tathagata]

This makes me all squirmy, Eve.

pass the green beans makes you all squirmy

 

[SeattleRain]

Someone needs to take a switch to you, tara. My poems are in my email's draft folder. It's a mess. Like anna, I have 100s just lazing about with potbellies, waiting for me to work them out.
Hmm... potbelly poetry...

hmm I kind of like

poetbelly

I have a poet ass from sitting on it all freaking night. Maybe I need a chair that allows me to lie on my belly while I type....hmmm


might be an interesting device....

 

[SeattleRain]

pass the green beans makes you all squirmy

lololol

I will have to remember that.

green beans
melted butter
almond slivers
strategically placed (upon Tara)
lighly salted
no fork

 

[tarablackwood22]

lololol

I will have to remember that.

green beans
melted butter
almond slivers
strategically placed (upon Tara)
lighly salted
no fork

EVERYTHING that comes from you is poetry.

 

[SeattleRain]

EVERYTHING that comes from you is poetry.

I burp in prose. Excuse me.

 

[WickedEve]

I have a poet ass from sitting on it all freaking night.

Now I know what happened to my ass!!! It's all the damn poetry writing! So, now I'll just tell that damn man that I do not DO NOT have a wide ass. I have POETRY ASS!

 

[WickedEve]

This makes me all squirmy, Eve.

Uh huh... okay... Hey, tara, someone should take a pointy stick to you or maybe an entire tree--a leafy, barky tree full of squirrels.

 

[Tathagata]

I burp in prose. Excuse me.

That's so sexy....

 

[SeattleRain]

Now I know what happened to my ass!!! It's all the damn poetry writing! So, now I'll just tell that damn man that I do not DO NOT have a wide ass. I have POETRY ASS!

I think that's where they got the term poetass

hmmm maybe we should have a flat ass competition, I think I would win

hands down
under the table

 

[SeattleRain]

That's so sexy....

yeah, it's a shame I never pass gas.


however, you should read my sweat