twelveoone
ground zero
- Joined
- Mar 13, 2004
- Posts
- 5,882
The Intent:
The intent of these threads, I hoped would be a learning experience, primarily for people learning to write ( i.e. me, I just dropped out of the trees recently and found a yellow stick that one can use for other purposes besides scratching my ear or fishing for termites, one can make scribbly things that sometimes makes sense) poetry; but also as a vehicle for good writers to discover ways to improve their writing, a kind of workshop if you will.
I do not see it as a vanity thread, either for me (what do I get to show off, my ignorance?) or the writers.
Every writer sees the intro and has taken out the more effusive lines, and objected to the praise, and feels humbled. I do not know why, every writer is good, in some cases, better than “professional writers”, certainly more readable. All have the potential to be great. Some I consider to be revolutionary.
The Choices:
For the most part the choices where not mine, if they where they my choices, they where seconded, via correspondence with other writers. Who goes up next on the schedule is who I get the most agitation for, if they agree. Some did not agree.
I admit the circle is not large, but an opportunity was left for anyone in the original Interact thread to make suggestions, they did not, I suspect, for fear of offending anybody, by omission.
The Thanks:
tarablackwood22, who due to a lack of communication, and coordination on my part does not have an Interact number, she appears in a thread “Comments and Questions”
Interact 1 Tathagata
Interact 2 annaswirls
Interact 3 PatCarrington
Interact 4 Angeline
Interact 5 jd4george
By reading, I see, thank you again.
The Apology:
I have a list of recommendations, that I have not contacted, I apologize for not doing so, but there is a reason…
The Continuation:
After next week, I have pressing issues I have to attend to, and will not have the time to do #6 for awhile. I do hope to be back, but leave you with this piece of doggerel:
I smoke too much
Drink not enough
And pray to a god so mean
That the next time he jogs on by
To tread on me
He wipes his cleats clean
(dedicated to the anonymous 0 voter(s) that have wiped my “H”’s away, guess what, you can’t vote on this, or to paraphase Marshall McLuhan; You don’t like my poems, well I got others, you don’t like me, well there’ll be others)
The intent of these threads, I hoped would be a learning experience, primarily for people learning to write ( i.e. me, I just dropped out of the trees recently and found a yellow stick that one can use for other purposes besides scratching my ear or fishing for termites, one can make scribbly things that sometimes makes sense) poetry; but also as a vehicle for good writers to discover ways to improve their writing, a kind of workshop if you will.
I do not see it as a vanity thread, either for me (what do I get to show off, my ignorance?) or the writers.
Every writer sees the intro and has taken out the more effusive lines, and objected to the praise, and feels humbled. I do not know why, every writer is good, in some cases, better than “professional writers”, certainly more readable. All have the potential to be great. Some I consider to be revolutionary.
The Choices:
For the most part the choices where not mine, if they where they my choices, they where seconded, via correspondence with other writers. Who goes up next on the schedule is who I get the most agitation for, if they agree. Some did not agree.
I admit the circle is not large, but an opportunity was left for anyone in the original Interact thread to make suggestions, they did not, I suspect, for fear of offending anybody, by omission.
The Thanks:
tarablackwood22, who due to a lack of communication, and coordination on my part does not have an Interact number, she appears in a thread “Comments and Questions”
Interact 1 Tathagata
Interact 2 annaswirls
Interact 3 PatCarrington
Interact 4 Angeline
Interact 5 jd4george
By reading, I see, thank you again.
The Apology:
I have a list of recommendations, that I have not contacted, I apologize for not doing so, but there is a reason…
The Continuation:
After next week, I have pressing issues I have to attend to, and will not have the time to do #6 for awhile. I do hope to be back, but leave you with this piece of doggerel:
I smoke too much
Drink not enough
And pray to a god so mean
That the next time he jogs on by
To tread on me
He wipes his cleats clean
(dedicated to the anonymous 0 voter(s) that have wiped my “H”’s away, guess what, you can’t vote on this, or to paraphase Marshall McLuhan; You don’t like my poems, well I got others, you don’t like me, well there’ll be others)
