[stylist] sestina stretch

[Lynda Lambert]

Eve and Barbara,
Yes, I make my structure/core before I begin.
I put the number down vertically on the page and then take them away when I 
a finished.  The second thing I do is randomly select six words which I will 
work with.
I do this intuitively, without thinking about them because I want the words 
to take on their own life and not the life I directed. I want them to 
surprise me, and maybe that is what will happen when you return to your 
poem - you may be surprised by what is there to work with.
I love to write Sestinas, too.  It is like beginning a journey to a 
destination that I do not know in advance - I love it. Lynda

-----Original Message----- 
From: Barbara HAMMEL via stylist
Sent: Sunday, August 09, 2015 12:59 AM
To: Writers' Division Mailing List
Cc: Barbara HAMMEL
Subject: Re: [stylist] sestina stretch

I don't write many of them — I need to get back to them though — but I made 
a template file that has the order in which the words must be used and when 
I put the word the first time for the letter I change all the letters to 
that word. So, no, I never go over but, I'm not sure how it is done but you 
could just make it a double-sestina. Nothing wrong with that.
Barbara

Sent from my iPhone

> On Aug 8, 2015, at 23:45, EvaMarie Sanchez via stylist 
> <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
> I was just working on a sestina when I noticed that I had been carried 
> away
> with the words. I came to a stop and went to the top to start counting
> stanzas. Somehow I had completely lost count and had nearly doubled my
> required length. Oops!
> I felt the safest thing for me to do at that point was to close it out and
> return to it later when it will be less a thing of passion. In this way, I
> hope to be able to look at it critically and do what must be done. Perhaps
> I will find two sestinas there. I did not even do a read through at that
> point.
> Has this ever happened to any of you?
> Eve
>
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