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1/15/2016 4:17:52 AM
Channeling creativity - with no re-writes	No rewrites? A foreign concept to me. i work by settling on the theme and form of the poem at the start and then free associate the text. It's a messy first draft, in effect. Now I revise successive drafts, fine tuning, discarding until I am satisfied with the result. Oh wait. I am never satisfied with the result. No matter how much time I've put into a piece and declared, "I'm done," all I have to do is revisit it again and I'm sure to find a dozen things that need fixing. It's a curse. "Perfect is the enemy of done." edited by Steve Grammatico on 1/16/2016
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1/15/2016 4:17:52 AM

Channeling creativity - with no re-writes

No rewrites? A foreign concept to me. i work by settling on the theme and form of the poem at the start and then free associate the text. It's a messy first draft, in effect.

Now I revise successive drafts, fine tuning, discarding until I am satisfied with the result. Oh wait. I am never satisfied with the result. No matter how much time I've put into a piece and declared, "I'm done," all I have to do is revisit it again and I'm sure to find a dozen things that need fixing.

It's a curse. "Perfect is the enemy of done."
edited by Steve Grammatico on 1/16/2016

pages: 1