the best thing about being a writer -- part LXXVII
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it's taking ten years to write a one-page poem.
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it's taking ten years to write two lines.
of a one-line poem.
then scrapping it, yet again.
and starting from scratch.
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without the least bit of discouragement.
or regret.
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it's taking ten years
to write two lines
of a one-page poem.
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it's taking twenty years to write a single poem.
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it's taking twenty years to write a couple lines.
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it's taking twenty years to write a short poem.
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it's taking decades to finish a quick poem.
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it's taking a lifetime to compose an unfinished poem.
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it's taking a whole lifetime to write a mediocre essay.
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etc..
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the best thing about being a writer -- part LXXVI
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/f8c2c3acec8c8de5
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NOTE: that took me about ten minutes.
and i'm very pleased with it.
almost.
anyway, it would make a great movie.
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it's planting seeds,
and sewing shirts,
and building huts.
and creating art.
(between farts).
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/2e243acbcc643209