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| In Search of Organized Time |
| 11.01.04 (4:46 am) [edit] |
I brought my most recent poem to the Avol's Bookstore morning workshop, which is based on the form of a heart, atria, ventricles and all. Doctors Jessie and Jeannie were on hand for the operation. I bought a copy of Gray's Anatomy to commemorate the occasion.
I'm rather in flux with whom I'm spending the majority of my time. It's great to make work part of the social scene; my friends use work as a chance to be in the same spaces. It's like watching TV with friends: you spend time with them without having to foreground talking. The Six Feet Under club (or SFU for us secret handshakers) has been slow of late, what with school obligations. But we managed to squeeze in an episode a few days ago.
Speaking of time organization, I was just talking to a colleague yesterday about it. As a result of studying for both my Ph.D. qualifying exams and being in an extremely structured creative writing class, I tried to structuring my poetry production in a very systematic way, with specific days for writing, revision, revision, and final revision. A poem these days is alive for the span of a week and no longer. Inspiration, as a result, is extremely bounded and systematized. It's turned out to be a very successful system for me (it's helped me avoid the post-book slump that seems to be almost a cliché among writers), and I'm now trying to import it back to my school habits and it seems to be working well with my academic writing. Since I picked organization-schemes as my monomaniacal hobby last year, I've had a lot of fun talking to people about their systems.
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posted by: Dustin (reply)
post date: 03.27.06 (3:47 am)
You really Gotcha nice blog here
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