[stylist] For Bill

Wed Aug 12 15:25:04 UTC 2015

Bill,
That is the important thing. You are writing, and in two genres that I am
sure will be as fascinating as your poetry.

Jackie Lee

Time is the school in which we learn.
Time is the fire in which we burn.
Delmore Schwartz	 

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Houts via stylist
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Subject: Re: [stylist] For Bill

HI Jackie Lee,

I feel abashed and honored that things I've done have inspired you.  
That's such high praise that I could cry, and probably will.  Yes, I've 
been away from the list for a time, as I've been working on some short 
fiction which Chris and Brigit were kind enough to critique for me.  I'm 
also working on a novel, and that takes any amount of time you want to 
pour into it.  I've looked in on the group from time to time, though, 
and see that it's percolating with mind coffee, the way it always has.  
You're a dear for looking in on me, though, and I'm suitably moved.

--Bill

On 8/11/2015 2:45 PM, Jackie Williams via stylist wrote:
> Bill,
> I am glad you are still out there. I wrote "An Otter on a Water Slide,"
but
> I have entered it in a contest so am choosing to not send it to the list.
If
> it places, I will have to share it with you because you were the
> inspiration.
> Do you find that you can keep up with this list without having to give
> up your prolific writing? I am afraid if I give up on my efforts to answer
> everything in a timely way, I will again accumulate an impossible back
log.
> I need a better balance bar for this high-wire act.
> Perhaps we should all agree to a break and make the vow to get one of our
> creations done during this time published.
>
>
> Jackie Lee
>
> Time is the school in which we learn.
> Time is the fire in which we burn.
> Delmore Schwartz	
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of William L
> Houts via stylist
> Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2015 2:59 AM
> To: Writers' Division Mailing List
> Cc: William L Houts
> Subject: Re: [stylist] Poem
>
>
>
>
>
> Thank you so much, Jackie; it's much appreciated, especially as I think
> you are one of the greater talents here as well.  Hope your summer has
> gone swimmingly.
>
> --Bill
>
>
>
>
>
> On 8/10/2015 10:05 AM, Jackie Williams via stylist wrote:
>> Sem,
>> Please do not believe that rhyming poetry is out. Of all of my published
>> work, it is about half and half.
>> It is just that it is harder to write rhyming poetry because many of our
>> examples by famous past poets use reversals of the modifying clause. (I
> will
>> think of the word in a minute. And some do not know the value of
> enjambment
>> to take the curse off of forced rhyme.
>> If you write a hundred of them, you will learn what I mean.
>> Our Bill uses rhyme in the most wonderful ways. Sometimes internal,
>> sometimes at the end of a line. He has a beautiful knack for it, and if a
>> rhyme is not available, he might invent a suitable word.
>> The reason it is often frowned on my publishers is because they have
>> received too many bad rhyming poems.
>> Many contests still have categories for rhymed poetry. Many of them are
> also
>> humorous.
>> At any rate, good luck with your poem.
>>
>> Jackie Lee
>>
>> Time is the school in which we learn.
>> Time is the fire in which we burn.
>> Delmore Schwartz	
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Semirhage
> via
>> stylist
>> Sent: Sunday, August 09, 2015 10:56 PM
>> To: Writers' Division Mailing List
>> Cc: Semirhage
>> Subject: Re: [stylist] Poem
>>
>> Hi, Chris and Jackie. Only recently did my husband and I learn that the
>> rhyming poetry seems to be out. One day I"ll have to try writing
something
>> that doesn't rhyme. Not sure if it'd be easier or more difficult. Being
in
>> bands as I have, I'm used to writing songs, and they've always rhymed and
>> songs are poetry, so...but we're not exactly in the poetry know, which is
>> why I dare to comment so little to poetry. Thank you both for your words
> and
>> compliments. They make me  actually consider trying to get this one
>> published for Halloween somewhere. I'll be looking into that and totally
> let
>> you know if anything poems of it. I am glad you liked the feel and found
> it
>> informative, Jackie. Perhaps that's because even though you're not into
>> vampires this spoke, being written from the POV of the human servant of
>> Dracula. So it was put from a human's POV, making it perhaps a little
less
>> foreign.
>> I like some vampires, vampire books, movies,  ETC, and not others. But I
> do
>> have them featuring in my paranormal works as well as the fantasy ones,
> and
>> as they are popular as you said, I am hopeful that they'll get where they
>> need to go when the right person sees them. Right now it's actually
> getting
>> an agent's attention that's our trouble. LOL. I'd not even mind being
>> rejected if it meant one actually read something. *smiles*
>> Sem
>> I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed.
>> I get along with the voices inside of my head.
>>
>>
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