tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2580287010137212011.post8540708128060306600..comments2023-09-18T04:21:28.438-07:00Comments on Mike In Finland: What are you working on now?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2580287010137212011.post-48800088764464374682012-02-21T22:01:57.358-08:002012-02-21T22:01:57.358-08:00Thanks DPL; I´m glad my feelings on the matter chi...Thanks DPL; I´m glad my feelings on the matter chimed. <br /><br />I should also have made it clearer that when I produce poems in a batch, they aren´t done and dusted in that period. Those are just first drafts. I´ll re-write and tinker with them until someone takes the things away from me.Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09961023908420463435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2580287010137212011.post-45459354995486472412012-02-21T11:02:25.402-08:002012-02-21T11:02:25.402-08:00"However, I sometimes write three or four in ..."However, I sometimes write three or four in as many weeks and then go months without writing one. ... Right from when I started writing, I always had the attitude: I don´t have to do this. If the flow dries up, then I don´t write."<br /><br />I love this sentiment. People always say a writer has to be writing (like many modern Billy Crystals from Throw Momma From the Train). It's like that with artists too - there's a competition to see who has spent the most time in the studio struggling over their art. The fact remains you have to write <i>about</i> something (or make art <i>about</i> something as the case may be.) That <i>about</i> is what living is for. Kudos to you for not writing for months.DPLbloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01802449040056145878noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2580287010137212011.post-64498079885476362702012-02-06T21:41:42.308-08:002012-02-06T21:41:42.308-08:00Hi Sue. Thanks for your comment and interest. I wo...Hi Sue. Thanks for your comment and interest. I wonder just how general our approach to writing poetry is. I´ve heard that there are poets how sit and write virtually to a timetable. Of course, they either scrap work they´re not happy with or keep revising it until they are. I´ve tried to do that once or twice myself, but I´m just not happy with the method.Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09961023908420463435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2580287010137212011.post-78598335743195804252012-02-06T02:21:03.942-08:002012-02-06T02:21:03.942-08:00Great to see what you are working on. I was wonder...Great to see what you are working on. I was wondering, to be honest. And it's also encouraging to me to see that your approach to poetry writing and mine are exactly the same...much like the proverbial buses, you can wait a long time, and then three come together all at once.Sue Guineyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13556228394020314560noreply@blogger.com