[stylist] For Bill

Wed Aug 12 21:09:35 UTC 2015

Thank you so much, Lynn, you've totally made my day!

beaming at you,

Bill

On 8/12/2015 1:56 PM, Lynda Lambert via stylist wrote:
> Bill, you have been a very busy and dedicated writer - so much going 
> for you. So great to read this today. Write on. Lynda
>
> -----Original Message----- From: William L Houts via stylist
> Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2015 11:18 AM
> To: stylist at nfbnet.org
> Cc: William L Houts
> 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
>> upyour 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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