[stylist] sestina stretch

[Barbara HAMMEL]

Wow, Lynda! I wish I could randomly pick six words but I overthink it. When I took my college English courses and had to write essays one of the things expected from us was that Burke's Pentad or whatever you know it as: the who what when where why and how of the essay. I ALWAYS had to write them AFTER the essay because I could NOT do them.
Barbara

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> On Aug 9, 2015, at 10:44, Lynda Lambert via stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> 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
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> -----Original Message----- From: Barbara HAMMEL via stylist
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> 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
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>> On Aug 8, 2015, at 23:45, EvaMarie Sanchez via stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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>> 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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