tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1129078493058726326.post4532359239489525927..comments2023-06-21T01:11:32.393+12:00Comments on Meandering Through Secret Waters: WorkshopCallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18365519986239394807noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1129078493058726326.post-18039350722434828702008-11-10T10:59:00.000+13:002008-11-10T10:59:00.000+13:00Thanks for the comments. As I said, this was just ...Thanks for the comments. As I said, this was just a 5 minute exercise - but funnily enough, I absolutely agree with you - That "grief-filled' bit was the bit I disliked most but couldn't think of anything else once it had popped into my mind!<BR/><BR/>I have heard that phrase - "a writer is someone who writes" - and sometimes think I should write it on lots of large sheets of paper and pin them up all over the house!Callyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18365519986239394807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1129078493058726326.post-76986029854688650412008-11-10T09:01:00.000+13:002008-11-10T09:01:00.000+13:00I like that poem. For some reason I'd like it more...I like that poem. For some reason I'd like it more without "grief-filled". "Grief" picks up the vowel sound from "green" and throws both lines into more extreme emotional territory... and because it's a grief-filled *poem* the rest of the poem gets draggeda long too... and it isn't a poem that wants to breathe such rarified air. <BR/><BR/>That's the 30 second analysis of the response; maybe it's nonsense and I just dislike the word "grief". Don't know! But the response was quite a definite one: like the poem, dislike that phrase.<BR/><BR/>If you write in workshops and tend not to write the rest of the time, possibly a regular writers' group would suit you? - that's assuming you want some mechanism to tip you over into writing more often. Most of the writing advice I've ever read boils down to this: "a writer is someone who writes".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com