I write and then edit
I write and re-write
my battle with words
is an unending fight
I wake and write notes
so I'm up half the night
but then in the morning
it still seems like shite
the words on the page
feel too loose or too tight
so endless revision is
my everyday plight
I re-do and re-edit
until it feels right
then when its finished
I dance with delight
that's until I decide
to completely re-write
Thanks gentlemen, I really appreciate you reading and for making comments/suggestions.
Thanks Old Shoes, I must try that approach, my God, just think...I'd have so much time on my hands ?
Thanks Raj, wise words (now you've got me thinking about G+T) ?
Thanks Col, for shedding light on the problem ?
Paul
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Sun 19th Feb 2017 09:21
Enjoy the journey Paul not the destination.
Be the inspirational artist and the craftsman rolled into one.
And hey, the perfectionist always has a reward -- another G&T?
Good work.
Raj
no, no, no, you just write once then edit once. no need for to much care, just move on to the next one, eventually a gem will come along. maybe, I guess. I'm still trying.
thanks
Old shoes
Thank you Emer, M.C., John and Ray for reading and for your interesting comments.
I wrote this piece because yesterday morning (Friday) it dawned on me that, over the past 2 months since joining WoL, I have spent so much time writing, editing, re-writing.
And it's true, I keep waking in the night with "the magic word or phrase" that I have to write down because, in the morning I will have zip, zero, zilch recollection of it.
Ray, thank God I'm not the only one scribbling in the dark during the night. It's a skill I'm still learning. Often the next day, I look at the page and see words and phrases written all over each other in an indecipherable mess!
Fellow poets, let's hope the struggle will ultimately be worth it ?
Thanks again, Paul
For me it often starts in the morning in the smallest room; i'm never quite sure what's going to come out. As long as the impulse is there though....
Seriously though Paul, I keep a jotter next to the bed and write block capitals in the dark. What seemed brilliant usually looks passe in the light of day ....
Aythangyow. Ray
Know the feeling - except that much of what I complete
follows lying in my bed with a busy mind creating and
considering (editing?) what comes, knowing a single word
change can affect a line or even a poem. Getting it
"right" can linger on long after the original version and
sometimes I wonder just how many famous poems were
produced that way. It can help the occasional sense of
dissatisfaction and inadequacy.
The struggle is real. ?
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suki spangles
Fri 24th Feb 2017 06:27
Paul, if I told you how much re-writing/ editing I do for even my humorous doggerel you will cry. I can relate to this. Actually, I enjoy the process - most of the time; a voyage of discovery where all that I see is the horizon. Man.