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STAND AND STARE a spin off

Blog Posted:5/7/2017 2:41:00 AM

' I miss just reading and not knowing why I like what I like.'

This is the last line of the latest (GMT 8am) comment on my previous blog .

It is an  apt conclusion to to the thrust of that blog( and an  answer if I may say so) and it draws upon my heart strings

It can happen to all we  creative beings

What is the answer to a dilemma like this?i ( clearly I am not suggesting an open blog comment to be an appropriate place to be specific !)

Perhaps my title (from W H Davies famous poem) maybe pertinent ?

How do you as a creative person find time to stare ?

How do you know why you like what you like?



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Kim
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Date: 5/8/2017 8:01:00 AM
I catch the moment. Yesterday, I was standing in a restaurant parking lot and heard the most beautiful birdsong. I longed to see the bird amidst the Spanish Moss hanging from the tree. Finally, he was sighted perched at the top. Love those moments.
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Doug Vinson
Date: 5/8/2017 8:44:00 AM
(((Kim))) ! Well said.
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Andrea
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Date: 5/7/2017 3:56:00 PM
Brian, I like to know as many things as I can so for example, if I go to an art museum, I want to see it ALL and I do not have time to stop and stare. This is how I am with poetry. That is why I do not like to analyze. I see many many movies and I just want to see them all so I never watch reruns. If I see a painting at a museum which is particularly impressive, I will stop and stare for maybe a minute. If I read an especially good poem, I take a bit more time than usual to savor it and then I move on (adding it to my faves list). I guess I have a collector's mentality and I always know what I like!!
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Doug Vinson
Date: 5/8/2017 8:42:00 AM
If 'Gladiator' is on TV then I have to watch it.
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Brian Strand
Date: 5/7/2017 11:51:00 PM
You sound like a butterfly Andrea.
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Brian
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Date: 5/7/2017 3:17:00 PM
How do I find time to stare? Well all my creative activity in both art and poetry have been in a period of my retirement or semi retirement years(I am quite old you see)so plenty of time to stand and stare or read
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Andrea Dietrich
Date: 5/7/2017 5:14:00 PM
well we all have the same amount of time naturally, but I fear I will be working part time until I keel over!!
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Andrea Dietrich
Date: 5/7/2017 4:52:00 PM
Also I don't have your time. Then maybe I would stare more. haha
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Brian
Strand
Date: 5/7/2017 3:12:00 PM
How do I know why I like what I like.It comes from having had an open and inquiring approach to both my loves..art..and poetry for many years.With me it has entirely experiential.Guess that is just the way I am.It suits me but appreciate we each must find our own unique individual approach that we are comfortable with.So many factors have brought us to this point in our creative journey
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Doug
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Date: 5/7/2017 2:49:00 PM
Brian, in these discussions of analyzing poems, of tearing wings off of insects, and of stopping and staring - of being at peace in appreciation, I am (finally) better able to understand one of your frequent themes - the "as is" moment of reading a poem. Indeed, there are times when certain essences cannot be preserved, catalogued or even communicated to others without altering them. I think there are some fundamental limits to things, here, as with the Uncertainty Principle in physics - if we focus too much energy on a thing, we may alter it, and for the reader of a poem, the moment may be changed or even destroyed.
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Brian Strand
Date: 5/7/2017 3:03:00 PM
Yes Doug I believe to read or better yet to hear a poem is a unique experience each time,much like looking at a piece of art.My other interest is what makes a poet(or artist )tick and cause the creative process that motivates their art.I have little interest (now)in the techniques that produce it, so I just enjoy the beauty of the butterfly and prefer to leave dissection to others if that is their thing
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Connie
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Date: 5/7/2017 8:25:00 AM
Stare with a purpose, observe, process that's me. Without a purpose, to linger and spite the other person it all depends who, especially if she's a black bear that stole my footle. Am I not the worst? Mom she'd always catch me staring even on her death bad. Uncanny, "close your mouth." There's your free verse.
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Doug Vinson
Date: 5/7/2017 2:27:00 PM
I like it, Connie. : )
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Cyndi Macmillan
Date: 5/7/2017 8:41:00 AM
Black bears are helpless to fight their nature. Eventually, they toddle back to the woods, go back to their dark caves and hibernate with nightmares. I no longer chase them, but I will roar right back in their faces, fang to fang. Protect footles and protect self from becoming the very black bear that you loathe.
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Doug
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Date: 5/7/2017 6:57:00 AM
"How do you as a creative person find time to stare?" -- I think you just do it. Not that everybody would stare at the same thing as you, or that you would so stare in every instance. How impatient is one's life? "How do you know why you like what you like?" -- Early in life we begin associating experiences, i.e. "good, less good, bad," etc. To some extent we are able to mentally catalog what is going on, i.e. it tastes like this, it has these colors in it, it has a certain theme, etc. Yet there will always be some intangibles - there will always be new things, and wonder. I hope so, anyway.
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Brian Strand
Date: 5/8/2017 3:16:00 AM
As an old timer,I can say I am sure there will for someone with your outlook on life Doug
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Cyndi
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Date: 5/7/2017 6:46:00 AM
Aah... perhaps that IS my problem. I haven't much time at all. I'm rather out of time. I need to start earning more from my writing. I should soon be hearing back from a publisher of children's books (any day now. It's been six months.) I am back to working on my novel for Bookouture (potential for a good earning there as royalties slowly amass). Down the road, I could receive a grant of a few thousand towards writing a poetry book. We've been a one income family for eight years. Though I worked with data, a lifetime ago, I've fallen so behind applications it would mean going back to school (I'm in a small town and don't drive.) I must, as they say, GET ON WITH IT. So, publication went from being a distant dream to a very real goal. I don't need to make TONS of money, but I do need to bring in, oh say, five to ten thousand a year, and yes, yes, I know that will not be from poetry. But between children's fiction and some genre fiction for adults? Yes. Doable! The pressure to "get there" has heightened my awareness of those who have, and if I don't know "why" then I dig deeper and try to see what it is that made the writing (fiction or poetry) work. I also know that publication, to a certain degree, is luck-based. What the writer has crafted must end up in the lap of an editor who sees (has analyzed the work) not only what the story is and has, but what with a bit of tinkering here or there can be. I'm on the "third strike and you're out!" with a book publisher, right now. She saw my vision and asked me to rework a picture book into an early chapter book. She still liked my vision in the early chapter book, but she wanted it 'tweaked.' If she likes most of my tweaking and thinks I know how to tweak, then she will say yes. If she still likes my story, doesn't like my tweaks, but thinks I at least know HOW to tweak, then she MAY say yes...but will give me a revision list. If she says no, she doesn't like my tweaks and thinks I haven't a clue what I'm doing, then she will give me a final "No. Sorry." So...this need to know, this awareness of why and how, has me not able to sit and stare...but maybe that ability will return, when I can yell with joy, "I AM HERE. I AM WHERE I WANT TO BE!" Then, I can stop the worrying, tell that niggly-naggly inner voice that keeps prodding me to analyze to SHUT UP. I do look forward to that. One more year, I am praying ... just one more year.
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Brian Strand
Date: 5/8/2017 3:17:00 AM
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Cyndi Macmillan
Date: 5/7/2017 7:19:00 AM
Six months is warp speed in the world of publication (traditional publication, I mean.)
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Cyndi Macmillan
Date: 5/7/2017 7:18:00 AM
I was writing two chapters a week.. but I reached exhaustion (which is why I've been playing with my chums on soup :D) Publishers DO NOT work at warp speed. The children's book? Now at 18 months. If they say yes? Another 12 -18 months before publication. Bookouture? They are fast! 2 months for a reply and 4 months to publish!!!
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Doug Vinson
Date: 5/7/2017 6:59:00 AM
Cyndi, yes - I have a picture of you moving along at warp speed....

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