Campaigning to get back old members

[billy]

This was Jill's last post:

I've received a 'missing you' message, I realise that it is automatically generated but nevertheless...here I am. I hit a concrete wall, poetically speaking, around Christmas time and no longer consider myself a poet. However, here is an old rondelet of mine.

I can reach out to her. I think she was finding workshopping uncomfortable. When you go through persistent creative blocks it can also be frustrating. I'll see how she's doing.

yeah, i miss granny jill; good idea Todd, tell her to post in just for fun till she feels up to posting else where.

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Yeah I miss Dale

He was very helpful to me and always had massive amounts of corny jokes to pummel me with via email . . . those were the days.

I also miss grannyjill posting homespun rondelets in the wrong sections

I miss seeing cigarbabe creep through-

And what happened to Sid?

Oh and Abu I miss a little but he hasn't really left left . . . You old meany :p

cigarbabe i also liked. she was upfront sid i think got other things going on, i did email him once but got no reply.

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Hey! I am not, and have not ever, been gone. In fact, I am less gone than many others. Perhaps I do not contribute as frequently as I might; perhaps I have a quick canter through anything interesting; perhaps I hold my peace. Perhaps, like General de Gaulle, I await 'L'Appel'. Perhaps I should leave, so as to revel in the pleas from the pit, for my return. You do not appreciate me, that's it. Milton understood. He and I also serve, while merely standing and waiting. Surprised about Dale --he'll be back, I think. Damn it I owe him a reply to a long thing he wrote, an IM.

Yep, Jill was a loss. P'raps, p't-etre and quizas, in addition to the work-shopping, there should be a simple show-case, identical in every way, to the other options, but without the expectation that there will be further alterations. If you finish a painting, and it gets accepted, you don't expect to paint over it-- though comments might make you do something differently next time around.

Is there a flounce emoticon?

you don't need a flouncy, you executed one of your own expertly
please please please don't go abu

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ps, a showcase show case forum is an option.