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My name is Joy, and I love to write.
Why poetry, here? Because poetry uplifts its writer, and if she is lucky enough, her readers, too. Around us, so many objects abound to write about. Once a poet starts with a smallest, most trivial object, he shall discover that his pen will spill out what is most delicate or most majestic hidden inside him. Since the classics sometimes dealt with lofty subjects with a lofty language, a person with poetry in his soul may incline to emulate that. That is understandable. Poetry does that to a person: it enlarges the soul and gives it wings. Yet, to really soar, a poet needs to take off from the ground.
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Off the Cuff / My Other Journal #681311 added December 28, 2009 at 5:19pm Restrictions: None
Dean Koontz Video Link
http://www.facebook.com/audible.com?v=app_127050699172
Just click on the arrow in the middle of the screen.
I came across this gem because I got an e-mail announcing that audible.com had started following me on Twitter. I'm glad I clicked on their link. This video is from a chat on December 17, 2009, and I enjoyed it immensely.
Watching it takes more than half an hour. Sorry, I didn't time it, because I wasn't expecting it to be long. In it, the author answers reader questions.
I found what he says interesting in some ways, as in: Koontz writes 60-80 hours a week. He starts around seven in the morning, skips lunch, goes all the way to dinnertime. He doesn't make any outlines or character sketches, but gets involved in the one book he's working on. He's no multi-tasker, unlike me and most of us here.
But then, being involved in only one story does have its benefits. I learned that while doing Nano in November.
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