From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1120">Chances</a><BR>
Date: 7 March 2003<P>

On how I write (don't laugh, please)...<BR>
Well, I start with an idea which I generally toss about in my brain, thinking up lines and aspects of the idea, if I'm nowhere near my home computer. Usually it's something bugging me romantically (since that's what I've started writing about) - occasionally it's just an idea for a poem that hits me from the blue. Then some of my inspiration comes from stuff I read here, which is great. Of interest, the Medusa myth which inspired my Catharsis has bothered me from the first time I heard it when I was young because I thought it was a really unfair to women. But then, men have had more than their share of villains in fairytales too. I just felt like turning the tables on it... and everyone was going on about rocks and stones at the time... LOL.<BR>
Then when I write it out for the first time, I just let it pour out, however it comes out. Usually it has the beginnings of its structure, or its own feeling of how it's going to be structured (or I just haven't got a structure I'm really comfortable with yet?).<BR>
Then I look at what I've written, get down to the nitty gritty of looking at each line, playing with sentence structure, rhyming and counting syllables when appropriate, deleting extraneous paragraphs, etc. Still, I know I can only improve with time, and each individual effort suits me just fine.<BR>
If I try and force it, I generally write crap, but then I've written some good stuff just flailing about for inspiration (which is what I'm doing now)....<BR>
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There's been some great works posted this month so far, I've enjoyed reading them. Great monthly digest too, congrats to all the front pagers!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=2">scqueen</a><BR>
Date: 7 March 2003<P>

coujeaux ~ <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.03.06.21.14.26417">Now That's Entertainment!</a> Another marvel...well-written!<BR>
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Does anybody know if Jackryhme has gone overseas yet?
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1038">Blue</a><BR>
Date: 7 March 2003<P>

I no longer write poems.  Please do not use my account.  The latest poem was not written by me.  I am waiting for kirk to delete it from my history and discontinue my account.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=328">Rhetoric</a><BR>
Date: 7 March 2003<P>

j. knipp:<BR>
great posts! I like if dreams had substance best, though. Excellent last line.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=436">Jon</a><BR>
Date: 7 March 2003<P>

Jim~ I like your style, I was looking forward to reading a "Green" poem by you.<BR>
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splat~ <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.03.06.15.09.25277">The Modern Curse</a> is funny.<BR>
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Take care<BR>
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-Jon
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=205">Violet</a><BR>
Date: 7 March 2003<P>

Liz~  I really liked lost love.  I've felt like that before.  :-) ~Vi
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=205">Violet</a><BR>
Date: 7 March 2003<P>

Trout Almondine~ I just read "men"  and I am very amused.  (I needed a laugh today!) :-) thanks! ~Violet
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=872">CryingShame58</a><BR>
Date: 7 March 2003<P>

Coujeaux,<BR>
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Your words in <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.03.06.21.14.26417">Now That's Entertainment!</a>& in everything you write amazes me....I am always waiting for you to submit something else....I can't tell you enough how much pleasure I get from reading your submissions....keep up the great work....when i read "Nothing says I love you like hurricane hysterics rumbling upstairs like a runaway train"...I am in awe and astounded...there is no doubt to me that there are plenty of young women are pursueing you...<BR>
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CryingShame 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=835">Liz</a><BR>
Date: 7 March 2003<P>

Violet, thanks for the compliment...I always love your work!  My man raves about it, too.  
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=8">Ali</a><BR>
Date: 7 March 2003<P>

Liz~<BR>
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*grin*  Thank you very much! :)  I am glad that you liked! :)<BR>
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Love and disquiet curiosity, Ali
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1176">aparajita</a><BR>
Date: 7 March 2003<P>

coujeaux:  very impressed by you!!  love the blues and looking back at some of your past seems you do too.  looking forward to what else you have to say....
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=900">RennieLorca</a><BR>
Date: 7 March 2003<P>

aparajita~ oh, don't we all wonder sometime: <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2003.03.07.18.37.10039">whispers</a> thanks for this.<BR>
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Paul~ you just keep churning 'em out ... great reads!<BR>
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J. Knipp~ I've recently enjoyed reading your account ..... Rennie <BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=900">RennieLorca</a><BR>
Date: 7 March 2003<P>

Whitney~ Congrats on the job! My fella says they've emptied out just about every marine and sailor on your coast to be deploy, so jack may be on his way. I hope we hear from him soon. I'm running way behind on reading here, and just haven't told him how much I have enjoyed his last half dozen poems :( ..... Rennie
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