Semi-Random bullet points, because it's late and I'm kind of out of it right now:
- Warren Ellis did a great bit once about how following the stereotype of the lone writer who just sits and observes, eternally apart from actual life, only prepares you to write about people who sit and observe, and never actually live their own lives.
- I used to think I disliked poetry. Then I found some good poetry (yours not least among it), and realized that it was just that I disliked shitty poetry, which was all that I had been exposed to up until that point.
- I have for some time thought that what I want to do with myself would lie in either prose writing or music. Adding poetry to that provides a bridge between the two, gives me a single spectrum to aim for, rather than two disparate goals. Perhaps eventually I may aspire to something in the old Norse Skaldic tradition: storyteller, poet, singer, wise-man, all in one and more besides.
- I liked your comment about "If you want to meet interesting people, be an interesting person yourself." It reminds me of a self-esteem booster I've been using lately, in reverse: When I'm feeling down, I think of the good friends I have, and the fact that such people wouldn't actively seek out my company if I weren't someone worth hanging out with.
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Date: 2011-12-11 09:27 am (UTC)- Warren Ellis did a great bit once about how following the stereotype of the lone writer who just sits and observes, eternally apart from actual life, only prepares you to write about people who sit and observe, and never actually live their own lives.
- I used to think I disliked poetry. Then I found some good poetry (yours not least among it), and realized that it was just that I disliked shitty poetry, which was all that I had been exposed to up until that point.
- I have for some time thought that what I want to do with myself would lie in either prose writing or music. Adding poetry to that provides a bridge between the two, gives me a single spectrum to aim for, rather than two disparate goals. Perhaps eventually I may aspire to something in the old Norse Skaldic tradition: storyteller, poet, singer, wise-man, all in one and more besides.
- I liked your comment about "If you want to meet interesting people, be an interesting person yourself." It reminds me of a self-esteem booster I've been using lately, in reverse: When I'm feeling down, I think of the good friends I have, and the fact that such people wouldn't actively seek out my company if I weren't someone worth hanging out with.