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CHARLES BUKOWSKIso you wanna be a writer?CHARLES BUKOWSKI by =Bark
if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it comes unasked out of your
heart and your mind and your mouth
and your gut,
don't do it.
if you have to sit for hours
staring at your computer screen
or hunched over your
typewriter
searching for words,
don't do it.
if you're doing it for money or
fame,
don't do it.
if you're doing it because you want
women in your bed,
don't do it.
if you have to sit there and
rewrite it again and again,
don't do it.
if it's hard work just thinking about doing it,
don't do it.
if you're trying to write like somebody
else,
forget about it.
if you have to wait for it to roar out of
you,
then wait patiently.
if it never does roar out of you,
do something else.
if you first have to read it to your wife
or your girlfriend or your boyfriend
or your parents or to anybody at all,
you're not ready.
don't be like so many writers,
don't be like so many thousands of
people who call themselves writers,
do
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fitstrina is a small woman who illustrates greeting cardsfits by ~InkatMidnight
and pores over self-help manuals
obsessively.
the fact that she touches humanity
in concentric circles
means little
when she breaks like this.
she's a magnet who creates blank screens
on the spiraling doped processors bumping her on the way
to the bookstore,
where there are longer novels and greater manifestos than her moccasin flats
tapping their way through Reference
Mystery
past Romance.
she may be a trend, a fad who is coming to terms with the fact that
her author-affairs create an allusion of affinity because all novels
are caricatures of truth.
she may be a fraud or
how to revise poetryThere a decent number of very talented poets on dA and, if you’re willing to dig hard enough, you can find some truly excellent work.how to revise poetry by =tonepainter
If you’re not willing to dig hard, but you still browse around casually in some of the better administered groups, you’ll likely stumble upon a few excellent works and a good number of good works that impress you but that don’t quite make the top grade.
And if you just browse around the poetry on dA, giving no effort to separate the good from the bad, a too-large percentage of what you’ll come across is what I call Conceptually Reductive Adolescent Pettiness, or CRAP for short.
The secret to writing better poetry, whether you’re a beginner or a frequently published poet, is in how well you revise. Like most creative things, a great poem is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. The problem with really bad poetry is that it’s neither inspired or well ed
Poet, Writer, Editor
For more of my poetry, please visit my WordPress site:
beeswingpoetry, at [link]
For more of The Pub Series, please note me for an invitation to my creative nonfiction WordPress site.
Because of the demands of life and times, I'm not always able to thank people for faves. Please know I'm honored by every person who takes the time to read my work.
Sta.sh
Neutral 
You're way too kind.
