[stylist] poem revisions

[Barbara HAMMEL]

See, and the problem falls that I abhor change in my life and that carries over to my writing. Good idea a copyright dates. I could either call the new one title (revised) or call the old one title (draft). I like that. Now I just have to free my mind to do it.
Barbara

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> On Jun 18, 2015, at 15:42, Lynda Lambert via stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> OH, I love this, Bill!  - your quote," I've adopted a kind of joyful
> bloodymindedness about it all, so there's not even a twinge of pain
> about doing this."
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> I do this kind of rewriting and editing often, and it's not unusual for me to work on something for months at a time...after all poetry is a  *craft * and I have that joyful feeling Bill speaks of when I am CRAFTING my writing possibilities as I work on them.  I call them *works* for that is what they are - constructions as WCW would call them.  We create, build, tear down, build more, and tear into them again and again - until the new essence is found. It is a great feeling.
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> This note from Bill is a keeper - it's all about the growth of the person as well as the poem. It's about change, and livingness, and fresh thoughts and ideas. bill, I just loved this post - you reflect my thought on it.
> Barbara, one thing that can be done is to do the copyright with the new date on the newly revised poem  In my chronology, I will write both dates on the poem if I still call it by the same title.  I can tell by the copyright date with is the old one and which is the new one. but, often I revise it so drastically it gets a new title, too.  Lynda
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> -----Original Message----- From: William L Houts via stylist
> Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2015 1:27 PM
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> Subject: Re: [stylist] poem revisions
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> HI Barbara,
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> I make a kind of game out of my revisions.  Sometimes, I'll just cruise
> through my poetry folder ("Cosmos") and rnandomly give a once over to
> one or even several poems; just eyeball them to see how I feel days,
> weeks or months after first writing them. Gradually, over time, all of
> myh poems get at least minor revisions, and over the long haul they all
> get at least two or three overhauls.  I've adopted a kind of joyful
> bloodymindedness about it all, so there's not even a twinge of pain
> about doing this, and I feel that my poetry in general really does
> improve with time.  I used to be very squeamish and protective about my
> stuff, and had a real case of the horrors when it came to editing.  But
> now I really enjoy the process  and my work in general has, I feel,
> improved. My advice is to keep in mind that Word documents (or
> Wordperfect or what have you) exist in order to be revised.  It's so
> easy to delete, and almost as easy to rewrite, to commit new thoughts to
> the page that there's no reason to sufferthrough the process.  Just
> remember that hope springs eternal --and so does poetry.  >grin<
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> --Bill
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>> On 6/18/2015 9:36 AM, Barbara HAMMEL via stylist wrote:
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>> I know, for years I've been saying I was going to try revising my poems. As you know, I have always thought a poem complete and the way it was meant to be until you fine folks informed me that improvements could be made on them. But, somehow, I can't bring myself to do it because it would mess up my extensively organized folders by doing that. My question is, do you then count a revised poem as a new one? You'll probably tell me it's up to me what I do but I need help tricking my brain because if I rewrite something, seems to me it should have a new date. I have actually sorted my poems into ones I want to work on revising and which are too personal or too awful or stupid to waste my time improving on.
>> Barbara
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