08-25-2021, 04:09 AM
(08-25-2021, 12:27 AM)rowens Wrote: Most of my writing is prose fiction. I rarely post any of that. My poems I ad lib on the spot. I wouldn't know how to revise them if I wanted to. I have so-called Learning Disabilities. I don't have any technical sense. What comes out is as it good as it's going to get.I've grown weary of the revision merry-go-round. I'm starting to feel like Howard Hughes watching Ice Station Zebra over and over and over. I just wrote a poem but if I post it anywhere it will be in one of our discussions. You inspired it in your other post in the other thread.
I know revision is important....well, I don't know it, I don't really even feel it, but it's the law in the main threads and I try to be law abiding out of respect for the glory that Pig Pen can be. I've learned a lot of humility from the critiques and that was a necessary corrective as I came in back in January thinking I was hot shit when really I'm cold snot (a favorite saying of my father's). "Slick as greased owl shit" was another. Now that's poetry.