Tag: editing
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Word Wednesday – falling on the grenade
As of 2023, I’m pretty sure this poem is old enough to buy beer. This poem was written somewhere between 2000 and 2002 and appeared in my 2008 book Odd Bits Of Broken Things. What you’ll hear in this video is a slight update from the original. Call it a remix. I’m not quite sure…
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An Unfinished Sort Of Word Wednesday
There’s a school of thought that says a poem is never finished, it’s just resting. For most of my writing life, I haven’t had a traditional view of that since I seemed so allergic to editing that I should have an epi-pen at the ready. So most poems were finished immediately after they were typed…
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Enduring the Edit
“I’ve found the best way to revise your own work is to pretend that somebody else wrote it and then to rip the living shit out of it.” – Don Roff The best thing about having two writing projects going at the same time is there’s always something to work on. Get stuck on this…