[Quiet Man Cometh]

Hi hi. Reading through some of your stuff here. Glad you decided to put some up. :)

I've over a hundred poems written so far as well, though certainly not on one topic. Do you write poetry often?

Two poem in particular, Rain and Leaves of Changing, are interesting to me because they are both on topics I've written about myself but from a different perspective. I'm fascinated to see different people's impressiosn of similar environments or events.

[Saiyouri]

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(｡◕‿◕｡) Thank you. I'm glad someone enjoyed reading my
works. I haven't written a poem in about
a few years now. I have a really bad case
of writers block that won't go away no
matter what.

I can only write when I am inspired by
something and I haven't been inspired for
so long that at first it was about 10yrs
went by before I wrote again >.>;

Writing used to be a huge part of me, but
now it's just a memory. Which saddens me
deeply.



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[Quiet Man Cometh]

The effort does need to be put in to keep going again sometimes. I keep journals and it can be easy to fall off in updating, esepcially when I remember how much I haven't written but I just need to make myself pick it up again and write something and it comes back fairly quickly.

[Saiyouri]

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(｡◕‿◕｡) I've tried writing during these periods but
they weren't as good as the others.
Plus I would lose concentration in the
middle of the poem. So I would just give
up again and wait til inspiration hit
me again.



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[Quiet Man Cometh]

Maybe don't worry about stuff not being as good. You don't necessarily need to show it to anyone, and it's always open for re-write. The poem I wrote on rain I rewrote years later and now it's a collection of three, since I rewrote it again. ;). Some of my stuff is poor, I can recognise that, but I figure it's still worth keeping around. (Of course, this isn't to say I'm faring all that well with my writing now, but I'm trying, or remembering to try ;)).

[Saiyouri]

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(｡◕‿◕｡) That's awesome Quiet. I'm glad that worked out
for you. I wished I could go back
and rewrite some of my poems or at least
finish the ones that I lost concentration
on in the middle of. But I just can't, to
me when I finish a poem it's done forever
and there is no need to continue work on
it anymore. I might go back and try to
finish the ones I stopped on half way
through though, those I can at least give
a decent try on. Don't want them to be
ignored. There's a few of those actually.

The only thing that I was ever able to work
on again was my actual first try on a book.
I did 7 drafts of that thing before I just
said one day, 7 is more than enough I won't
be able to make this book any longer so I
stopped. It's about 30-50 pages long and it's
a fictional ghost story. I wanted to write a
book since my dream growing up was becoming a
writer so I worked on it 14 years ago and I
finally put it away 2 years ago. So yes, I spent
12 yrs working on a book that didn't get that
far. ; ; But it does have a complete ending
and it is well written. You don't lose anytime
in the storyline at all. I just wasn't able to
figure out more to add to the middle to extend
it some.



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[Quiet Man Cometh]

Doesn't really sound like it needed to be extended. I've made several failed attempts at novel writing and finally had to admit that short stories are more my thing, as much as I'd like to be able to write a full fledged novel, but there's no sense in forcing in superfluous info where it's not needed, short or no.

[Saiyouri]

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(｡◕‿◕｡) Ya I know. I tried but had to admit that it wasn't going to work out.
So I gave up. The book as is, is good and I'm proud
of it. I love it, it's my baby. I do write short stories as
well. I even wrote a small book about the enviroment with poems
going along with each subject on the enviroment.

I can post the book if you would like to read it. I don't mind typing it all out. I have the time lol.



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[Quiet Man Cometh]

I'd say it depends if you want to share, though I can't guarantee I, myself, will read it given I'm fickle with online reading. Other people might be interested though. I will say however, that for publishing purposes if you intend to pursue it, things posted in public forums (visible without membership) get axed from a lot of magazines and since it's consider by many to be self-publishing. Just a small caveat there. :)

[Saiyouri]

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(｡◕‿◕｡) I gave up my dream to be published. I did look into self publishing but I can't afford it and I know I will never be able to either. So I don't mind. I just hope no one steals my story and claims it for themselves. That would suck and hurt so much.



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[Quiet Man Cometh]

There's a trick that I've heard called 'the poor man's copyright.' Though you apparently have copyright of anything you write, proving it is yours if used is always the issue. One trick people use it to mail a piece of writing to themself, making a note on the envelope of what is it for reference, and then leaving the envelope unopened. The date on the post mark can establish when a piece was already existing.

[Saiyouri]

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(｡◕‿◕｡) That's a good idea. But that would be hard for me. Because I keep all my poems in order of written and they are dated as well with my age on them too. I am weird like that. This way when I go back and look at them, I can see when exactly when I wrote something and remember the simple times when I wrote it.



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[littl3chocobo]

hello guys^^ is this really the only live thread?

[Saiyouri]

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(｡◕‿◕｡) I'm not sure, I haven't checked again for a thread to post in for a few mins.



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[littl3chocobo]

it is, you and i are the only posters recently

[Saiyouri]

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(｡◕‿◕｡) Wow, that's sad to hear. I wish there was more on right now. But I guess it's still too early for most people.



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