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larryta3 · 06-28-2003, 01:55 PM

I do know from the past few years of practicing poetry etc. that I can change a few words from my first thoughts and make a different item all together....I love to explore. I am thinking about it...Type

type · 06-28-2003, 04:04 PM

Sounds interesting! By "different item," are you referring to a story based on a line from your what-if poem? Rereading that poem, I can just imagine the possibilities. Go for it!
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Anonymous · 07-01-2003, 10:39 AM

I love this quote by Nicole Ward Jouve, writing on the subject of keeping a journal in 'The Creative Writing Coursebook':

"It soon becomes clear that it would take many days to write down what's been happening during the day - during one hour. It might take the whole of life. That is what books like 'Ulysses' or 'Mrs Dalloway' or 'Rememberance of Things Past' are about. Writing and time.Writing and life. In the choices one makes to write this or that in one's diary , year after year, out of the flow, the shape of who one is appears."

type · 07-01-2003, 01:08 PM

Thanks for the quote!

I would love to read that book and wondered if you had the name of its publisher.

Thanks again, crazylegs.

crazylegs · 07-03-2003, 03:30 PM

Yes ... it is the 'Creative Writing Coursebook', Edited by Julia Bell and Paul Magrs, published by Macmillan.

ISBN 0-333-78225-9.

It's full of great exercises, and thought provoking articles by authors and poets - I recommend it highly, though I am not even half way through it yet (*grin*).

type · 07-03-2003, 06:59 PM

Thank you so much! This book sounds like a great resource and I will try to obtain a copy of this book as well as post its title and authors' names on my website page, "Sources."