i've been checking out the chapters on putting a manuscript together.
i found that i had, not one, but THREE books that deal with this.
as if having bought these books at one time would give me some sort of a
advantage. ha! what i need is what the cowardly lion wanted, courage
and a little bit of confidence in my own abilities.
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I totally understand. If I had half the confidence in myself that others have in me, I would be so much better off.
i'm still struggling with a long gone catholic grade school indoctrination, that self- confidence and false pride are one and the same.
yeah.... you can probably let that go anytime you want Sherry.... you have just as much right to publish poetry as any dead poet, and then some....
Emily Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Though virtually unknown in her lifetime, Dickinson has come to be regarded, along with Walt Whitman, as one of the two quintessential American poets of the 19th century.
motivations......
important to reconcile.... once understood
cyberspace saturated culture with competing cultures
art essentially
expression
idiosyncratic
point of view
fame fortune and notoriety
combination of happenstance and mass....
marketability
poems
lyrics
music
pictures painting themselves
building videos
degree that they are "art" at all
recognized as a comparatively autistic and harmless form of self-entertainment
few aspirations can be assigned save for some derived level
self satisfaction
condensation
conden....sensation?
play on words
thanks. i'm working towards gathering up the pieces of myself and sorting thru them. got a ton of what's called baggage. i call it a lot worse.
i write because it's part of me.
i am a poet as much as i am a human being or have brown eyes.
you are kind.
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