Caren Krutsinger Poet Free verse

The Life of This Writer

writing is daydreaming on paper or sometimes straight into a computer.
notes crossed out, smacked around, slashed, re-visited, starred, circled,
checked, underlined, slashed out again, retrieved.

after print has happened, it all begins anew.  I count the syllables,
make six hundred tally marks on the page, slash out, cross out, circle,
write OKAY in big letters, draw arrows, put Xs, start rearranging.
Using 1, 2, 3, and A, B,C, as I valiantly try to figure out where 
the next line is going, or whether to even keep it.

I sit down to figure it out, and decide it will be easier to begin
again, rather than edit what has already been typed.  So I begin again,
slashing, dashing, drawing, starring, circling, smacking, cracking,
discarding, resurrecting.

the life of this writer.

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M. L. Kiser December 14, 2018 at 5:58 AM Mine too. Sometimes I think it's never going to be finished to my satisfaction and sometimes I overthink it. Caren Krutsinger December 14, 2018 at 5:59 AM I used to write newspaper columns and take extra envelopes and stamps to the post office, because I knew I was going to rip the old one open and cross out and change a few little things back to the way they were originally right before dumping them into the box to my editors.

Sand Blown December 13, 2018 at 1:44 PM yiperrr...know what you mean about habitual...having also been a teacher : ) Caren Krutsinger December 13, 2018 at 3:16 PM I am sure that you do.

Rhona Mcferran December 13, 2018 at 12:59 PM This is comforting to know... I was just wondering if other people's writing process was as messy and chaotic as mine! Caren Krutsinger December 13, 2018 at 3:16 PM Wonder no more my friend!