[stylist] FW: keeping poems, for Robert, Bridgit, Lynda, and Barbara, others

Wed Jun 17 02:16:36 UTC 2015

Bridgit,
Oh, I thank you so very, very much. This will go right into my hot key file for directions for all of my little problems.
Love you, love you!

Jackie Lee

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

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From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter via stylist
Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2015 7:06 PM
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Subject: Re: [stylist] FW: keeping poems, for Robert, Bridgit, Lynda, and Barbara, others

If you want to create columns in MS Word:

Move cursor to location where you want columns to start.
Press Alt plus O, then C.
This opens up the column dialogue box. Tab through the options, setting them up as you desire.

This should work regardless of what version of MS Word you have.

Bridgit

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From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jackie Williams via stylist
Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2015 7:13 PM
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Subject: Re: [stylist] FW: keeping poems, for Robert, Bridgit, Lynda, and Barbara, others

Bridgit,
Thanks for the info. I just bought a flash drive. The instructions I got for removing them are over five years old, so probably you are right, and everything is simplified. It is also possible that I have an external CD drive which I had forgotten about. 
I guess I will have to get comfortable with the help key to learn about reading columns.
I appreciate all of the information. 

Jackie Lee

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

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From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter via stylist
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2015 12:09 AM
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Cc: Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter
Subject: Re: [stylist] FW: keeping poems, for Robert, Bridgit, Lynda, and Barbara, others

Jackie,

No such thing as being over organized, smile.

MS Word can create columns that are accessible to read with JAWS, you just have to use a few different key strokes to switch between columns. If your teacher is keeping data in columns in MS Word, it's accessible. And if it's an Excel spreadsheet, that's completely accessible too, you just need to know the hot keys for navigating spreadsheets, which is a little different than Word.

As for a thumb drive, also known as a flash drive, no intricate method for removing. You simply insert in thumb drive slot and simply pull out when done. It's really no different than inserting and removing a CD or the old floppy discs. Thumb drives are awesome, and I use them all the time. There should be nothing difficult about inserting and removing them. Not sure what this person who showed you was talking about. And unlike an external hard drive, a thumb drive is portable and can be taken with you and used on any computer.

Most computers nowadays, especially laptops, do not have internal CD roms, so people purchase external CD ROMS. They can be purchased relatively inexpensively.

External hard drives are great for periodically back up a device, but a thumb drive is a much better option for backing up individual folders and files, especially for writers. And it's easier to retrieve these files from your thumb drive than an external hard drive, and you only need navigate through what you place on the thumb drive as opposed to the entire computer history on an external hard drive. But external hard drives are important to have though, I just think for purposes of your writing and classes, a thumb drive makes more sense.

I'm also the queen of folders within folders, grin. And I like to date material I submit and to what publication, so I know when and where I sent something. I keep these in a submission folder. I also tend to revise frequently, so I also keep track of what version of a piece I submitted.

Bridgit

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From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jackie Williams via stylist
Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2015 8:08 PM
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Cc: Jackie Williams
Subject: Re: [stylist] FW: keeping poems, for Robert, Bridgit, Lynda, and Barbara, others

Lynda,
It is always interesting for me to hear how other writers, and in your case, also artists, keep everything in order and at their fingertips.
I am becoming over organized, and I almost said I would enter no more contests this year as it is so hard to do all of these contests again without sending the same poems to the same categories.
	How I have things organized at the moment is a folder for each year. In that I have a folder for each contest. Inside that, I keep all the files. Each poem I enter with the number and category name as required on each submission. I also keep the two files, Contest Rules, and Categories in that folder.
Once a folder is over five years old, I start transferring them into a single state poetry folder.
I also have a folder called "Poetry classes. Inside this are the categories,  "fall, '08,Winter, '08, Spring, '08, then the ones for '09, and up through 2015. 
I tend to put everything I want to keep into these classes until I cut them to go into other folders, like "The Writer Magazine, with the many sub-folders such as "Poet to Poet," and "How I Write. I also have folders on publishing information, technology, My four books, with their myriad versions and submission info. I seem never to submit the exact version of a poem or a book twice. So the versions are sort of lost.
I do keep hard copy notebooks of everything that has been published, and some of these I cannot even bring up on the computer. But in those cases, when I was using a Mac, I have the newsletters, magazine, or newspaper clippings of what was published.
My most useful files on the computer are the ones for Paid Awards, and Unpaid Awards. These two tell me whether I can re-submit a poem again. If it is in the Paid Awards, I cannot, so I always check this before entering a poem. I have to be careful about submission dates, and often await the results of one contest to know if I can resubmit a poem.
Several contests are clustered around the summer months, and I have a really hard time making sure I have no duplicates submitted. Any ideas for this.?
My teacher organizes poem by poem with columns with dates, and the minute one comes back, she re-submits it immediately. She also records title changes in a column. I cannot even read columns, much less make them with my jaws, and not seeing anything. I only use Word.
Because of the increasing complexity, I may instead start looking for literary magazines down my alley to submit to, and Website's that might be interested in my main book, instead of contests.  
I also run my publishing as a business, but after 6 years, I have yet to make a profit considering the cost of entering manuscripts, poems, postage, new electronic devices, print cartridges, hiring experts occasionally, and taking my poetry class every session.  So far the IRS has accepted the no profit, but I expect it won't continue much longer.

I am in the process of cleaning out my files. My life will not extend to having time for re-reading everything I have saved through the years. It is slow going, for it is like many strings of pearls that I might take out to read when I like.
Also, when I move things from file to folder, the date or origination disappears. With my constant little changes in titles, I cannot always find a poem.
I have used CD's and thumb drives in the past, and one saved most of my stuff when I had a crash, but my present computer will hardly let a CD enter the slot, and I have not tried a thumb drive with it, since I got such intricate directions on how to remove it. That is why I got the external hard drive with the HD Smartware to back everything up. If it is not working, I am lost.

Jackie Lee

Computers are the schools in which we learn.
Time is the fire in which we burn.
After Delmore Schwartz	 

-----Original Message-----
From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Lynda Lambert via stylist
Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2015 3:35 PM
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Cc: Lynda Lambert
Subject: Re: [stylist] FW: keeping poems, for Robert, Bridgit, Lynda, and Barbara, others

Jackie, I do not back up any email at all on anything. When I am working with an editor on a project, I just flag all the messages and put them together while we are working, but other than that, I don't save emails unless it would really be necessary.

I back up all writings and art works, photography, etc. on CDs and Thumb Drives - keep them separate, so if I have a crash again I will be ok. That is what save me last year when everything was gone.
I know you most likely have extensive files from so many years of writing and probably have a very good system. I would love to hear how you keep records for your work, you entries, and your archives, and how you keep track of everything. I am always looking for tips to be more efficient with it all.  Once things are published, I keep hard copies of all the periodicals, journals,  and books, too. Usually, I have several copies of each for my private archives.

I am a file-a-holic - meaning, I have physical binders, one for each project I am working on. No, I cannot read any of them myself, but It is important to have them in case that item would be lost - I would at least have the hard copy to use in recreating it again.  Each book project has it's own binder, etc. In that binder is every piece of writing for the project, all of the research I have gathered for it, (I also do this for every art exhibition I am working on, since I work 2-3 years in advance pulling together exhibitions for various venues).  Each binder contains  hard copies, in transparent sleeves to keep them pristine and archival. In addition, inside that binder, I have a CD with every file on it, in folders, and keep it all together.  In addition to saving all writings and art works on my compute;r, I have the duplicates in the binders. When I need something, or have a question, I can go to the physical binder on my shelf and double check it there against what I have on the computer - you know, how we sometimes forget to put a file on the computer or save things in draft form - I know, I am a completely crazy woman when it comes to things like archival records, but that is  my background plus I am a Virgo and what else can a Virgo ever do but be obsessive about everything?  I think it is impossible to be too organized.

You might ask about the email program that allows you to wee an e-mail without opening it. I can just zip through all the email so quickly because I don't have to open them up. I open very few emails now.
Lynda

-----Original Message-----
From: Jackie Williams via stylist
Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2015 3:05 PM
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Subject: Re: [stylist] FW: keeping poems, for Robert, Bridgit, Lynda,and Barbara, others

Lynda,
This is critical information for me right now, and I thank you. The Center of the Deaf has a new computer in their office waiting for someone to come out and transfer all of my files, etc. before installing up to date software, etc. The hacked theory came from a computer expert friend in Cal. 
Who did not open an e-mail from me, thinking I could not have sent that one. 
He was right. I did not. The virus theory comes from any expert who has been sent by the state to try to figure out what is wrong, and they keep re-installing, or putting me back to previous software. The ones who suggest a possible virus never seem to know what to tell me to do about it or who to contact. Cox seems to think my program has covered that.
I do have an external hard drive, H D Smart wear, which is supposed to be backing up everything. But wouldn't it also be backing up any virus-laden e-mail?

Jackie Lee

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

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From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Lynda Lambert via stylist
Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2015 5:17 AM
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Subject: Re: [stylist] FW: keeping poems, for Robert, Bridgit, Lynda, and Barbara, others

Hi Jackie,
Just this past week another private list I am  rarely on was hacked. We members got an email that had a person's name on it  that we recognized, as the sender.  I didn't open it because I was suspicious. I have  an email program that enables me to see what is in the message without opening it.  I have learned to be super cautious because over a year ago, I did open something that wiped out my entire computer system.  I had to have a new one installed - a new hard drive, etc. So my tech guy put in a different kind of email program to prevent this from happening again. In my case, it was fortunate I had made several back ups and did not lose much other than all my email addresses which I did not make back-ups of prior to the crash.
Now, I am much more careful about anything that comes into my mailboxes - 8 email addresses at three different locations. If you are hacked, or you click onto a site that will give your computer a virus, you will lose everything and your entire computer system, as I did.  I sat here and watching everything disappearing, one by one.  Lynda

-----Original Message-----
From: Jackie Williams via stylist
Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2015 5:54 PM
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Cc: Jackie Williams
Subject: Re: [stylist] FW: keeping poems, for Robert, Bridgit, Lynda,and Barbara, others

Lynda,
You make me very happy that I do not have a Facebook account, nor do I Tweet. I have often thought I should, but I hear too many stories.
A really strange thing happened a few days ago. I got an e-mail from Margo Lagatuda. I think many of you know her from a telephone gathering. Right after that I e-mailed her about the subject of rhymed poetry. It was shortly after that she died from a fast moving cancer. This has been 2 or 3 years ago. I received an e-mail from her some months after that and was advised to delete it since she was dead. I did so. So has someone hacked her e-mail account again? If so, how? I am overcome with curiosity this time, but it sits there unopened. What do you all advised?
I googled myself sometime ago and found some thousands of Jacqueline Williams names, most from California, and after reading so many and finding many of them in legal limbo, I did not even refine my search. At the time I wanted  an e-mail address, and finally came up with jackieleepoet which still had not been used.
The last person here to help me try to straighten out my Outlook folders said she thought I had been hacked because things acted so strangely. I asked how I would know that. She did not know. Do any of you know? Cox said not to worry if there was just one or two episodes of getting strange e-mails, which has happened.
Sorry, the questions keep coming. Doesn't anyone else have similar problems?

Jackie Lee

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

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From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Lynda Lambert via stylist
Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 12:30 PM
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Subject: Re: [stylist] FW: keeping poems, for Robert, Bridgit, Lynda, and Barbara, others

Jackie, and all,
I met a woman last week who works for a large corporation in KY - she told me they hired someone to work full time at this corporation just to troll the internet and read face book postings by the employees - she said they have fired many people due to internet comments, photos, etc.
If you Google Search your name, you may be surprised what comes up if you are on the internet very much - comments from blogs and Face Book, etc.
I would think that an editor or publisher would definitely do a search to see whats "out there" by and from an author they consider for publication.
It would be really disappointing to be passed by because you posted something without thinking of the possibilities ahead.

My daughter is a teacher and she has had fellow teachers lose their jobs just because they posted vacation photos, with liquor in their hands - my daughter does not do FB at all any more because of what could happen is someone wrote something on her page, or if someone would not like a comment she has made...

There is no such thing as privacy on the internet - really. Things get hacked all the time and you never know who would copy/paste your work or send it to anyone else regardless of rules.

I don't know anything about judges or contests - but I trust people to be fair if they are in that role - typically anyone selected as a judge would be well qualified for it otherwise there would be no point to it.
I have judged many things and certainly looked at each entry for what it was without thought of who may have created the piece. I think any other judge would be impartial as well in this kind of situation.  Here's to a good say of writing.  Lynda

-----Original Message-----
From: Jackie Williams via stylist
Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 12:43 PM
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Subject: Re: [stylist] FW: keeping poems, for Robert, Bridgit, Lynda,and Barbara, others

Lynda, Bridgit, and those mentioned above.

Thanks so much for your comprehensive responses. I did not know that Google would have such detail about a person, or that Facebook was fair game.
Several responses above indicate that this list is safe. But here is a very specific instance of my question.
A while ago I posted a flash fiction piece, something I had never written before. I was overjoyed with the response, and particularly from Robert, who said he was sending it to the Nebraska group because he thought they would enjoy it.
It was a definite ego-booster. But on reflection, I feel I can never submit it, because I do not know if that group is a list like ours, or who there might have shared it outside their group. I never got any feedback from anyone outside this group.
And so, a short short career in fiction writing. Or should I take a chance and submit it elsewhere? Also, when you have put something on this list for a critique or comment, can you then legitimately send it to the NFB contest?
The judges would know who wrote it, and that is strictly against any rules I know about.

Jackie Lee

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

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From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Lynda Lambert via stylist
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 3:20 PM
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Subject: Re: [stylist] FW: keeping poems

Jackie's point is certainly a good one - for those of us who work with publishers and journals, we cannot post our work for many publications will not accept anything that has been published previously anywhere at all - even on your own Facebook page. That is a sobering fact, and it comes back to bite  us if we do it and we would  lose credibility with the publishers who work with us.  I do not enter contests much at all - only two in a year, because I am in the groups, so that is not my concern.  But I do want to continue to have my work appear in publications where I am paid for my  work and would never consider sending the editors  anything that was published anywhere else unless it is specified in the rules for Submissions that it is ok to do so. My interest and expertise is in essays and poetry - so that is what I choose to comment on typically in the group.  Just keeping up with my own work keeps me hopping.  This all works exactly like  gallery and museum art exhibitions - the higher quality exhibition venues  will not show work that has appeared an any other shows unless it is part of a traveling exhibition and in that case the entire show travels all over the states and abroad with the show.  - the best galleries want exclusive rights.  This is all fascinating, isn't it!

Another good point is that things we write and post on the internet, even in groups, is often available when you do a google search on that person and their work.  Particularly anything you have put on Facebook - even if you delete, it is still available through google search.  I have to ask myself, "Is it worth being banned from a publication because of something I posted on the internet in the past?"  It's a no-brainer, isn't it! If in doubt - don't do it. Lynda

-----Original Message-----
From: Jackie Williams via stylist
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 5:21 PM
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Subject: [stylist] FW: keeping poems

Barbara, and all, a response that I wanted all to get and respond to.

Jackie Lee

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

-----Original Message-----
From: Jackie Williams [mailto:jackieleepoet at cox.net]
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2015 7:53 AM
To: 'Barbara Hammel'
Subject: RE: keeping poems

Barbara,
Your point is well taken. There might be a subtle difference between my critique group and this list, this being electronic, and the other hard copies.
This was addressed some time ago by Bridgit and Robert, that this list is a group meant for critiquing and sharing, and a contest should not disqualify a poem because it is posted here. I agree it should not, however recently a poem was disqualified because the National Federation of State Poetry Societies found it somewhere on the internet. Searches are pretty comprehensive these days I am told.
I have also collected some of the poems from members here, particularly when they introduce a new form, like Myrna with her tumbling tercets and cascading quatrains, and your  poem about seeing letters and certain things in colors which describes a certain eye condition I can never remember the name for. Also, things like Lynda's relating of her strategy for writing that 39 line poem with the same six words repeated in six stanzas in a prescribed manner, with another 3 lines at the bottom. I describe this because my memory for the word for certain forms sometimes escapes me now.
It always comes back, but not when I need it.
It is not that I do not trust the ones on this list, but that contests are pretty specific about not publishing or putting your work on anything if you are submitting it to them, unless they say you may have simultaneous submissions. I have approximately fifty poems in submission at this moment, and I do not want to risk jeopardizing them.
Also, on a personal level, I have shared my long manuscript with its added "A Battered Woman's Glossary, A Ludicrous Lexicon of Legal terms, with seven different critiquers. With their critique, " five returned the manuscript plus the Glossary, and two kept the Glossary saying they wanted to show it to someone, and whoever they shared it with never returned it.
This manuscript has been submitted to10 contests in the past, and I am always afraid that I will get a notice that that Glossary is someone else's.
As poets, we are encouraged to save favorite lines, or favorite poems, and even to make "erasure" poems from then, where you can erase half of that persons poem, rework the rest, and claim it as your own, being sure to give credit to the original poet. But already, some of these are being legally challenged.
The pace of change in copywrite laws is moving and getting much more complicated by the internet. I wish it were not so. And the argument by many is that there is nothing that has not been said before, so they should be able to use anything that has been used before, thus evading the law.
In the meantime, I agree that so many submissions here are worthy of saving primarily as teaching tools for methodology, or form, or for examples of creative use of language.
I hope this mixed message makes sense to you.

Jackie Lee

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

-----Original Message-----
From: Barbara Hammel [mailto:poetlori8 at icloud.com]
Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2015 1:30 PM
To: jackieleepoet at cox.net
Subject: keeping poems

If one has no intent of ever sharing another's poem without their permission is it so bad to keep them? I have your A Rainbow Came Down poem — probably not your final copy — because I liked it. Will anyone ever know I have it?
No except that it's one by you. Would I ever print it or give to anyone without asking you? No.
I have five or seven of Myrna's, too. If a book were out that had all of them, I'd probably buy it for the final printed versions of them. Guess I don't make a competitive or smart writer, huh. Oh, and I'd NEVER claim another's work as my own.
Barbara
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