A ton of stuff

I’m amazed and delighted by the responses to my last posting.  I do know my Immediacy fetish isn’t a new idea, but I think it’s an idea which has chosen it’s time to reappear.  I have always had respect for words; I believe that words know what they want to do, how they want to be arranged on the page.  People have occassionally scoffed at this, and that is their perogative, but I know that when I pick up a pen and the words begin to flow I often have no idea where they are going to lead me.  I’ve had some pretty amazing  journeys over the past 20 years or so, some of which I’ve shared and some of which I’ve walked alone.  I only recently thought about why I have kept a lot of stuff to myself, and have concluded that  it is because I was worried that my work would be viewed as ‘unfinished’.     I have read all the books, attended all the workshops, been on all the courses and on every single one I’ve been told that editing is king.  Everything must be edited and re-drafted and re-drafted again until it is sterile enough for human consumption. Well, where I come from there is a saying: you’ll eat a ton of muck before you die.  So, read a ton of unedited, raw writing and you’ll probably live to tell the tale ( cliché is frowned upon too!)  I’ve found some more raw writing from amongst my early poetry so I’ m going to post those on the Poetry pages; please feel free to comment, critisise or otherwise speak about them.  I truly, truly value ALL comments (doesn’t mean I’ll always take any notice though!) but I will read, analyze and probably enjoy your feedback. So, send me stuff: comments, your own writing, especially if it’s raw, I’ll savour every sentence and stanza.

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