9.02.2012

Trance Writing in 750words.com

So... I've begun to use 750words as a convenient tool to get back into my print poetic practice.  It's probably good for me.  I tend to feel better, when I think I've been writing again.  I have a deep love/hate relationship with writing (especially poetry).  Ironically this is probably what brought me to want to push its bounds in the first place.  I got kind of bored and restless.  Anyway, the daily writing at 750words is where I completely freewrite and close my eyes.  It is uncensored and unedited (except for the occasional spell-check so I can know what I was talking about if I pull phrases from the passage later).  Because I've come to writing this way (formal and informal training - "experimental" writing is often all about constraint) , I often dislike writing constraints (like 750 words), but understand why they are a useful exercise.  It's probably ironic that I've gone into studying writing in media.  Because so much of everything about that is a constraint.  I don't really count the words but rather where I intuitively feel it is time to stop.  To make an official record that I've been doing this private writing practice, here is my first post at 750 words:

freewrite/ in tarnished solitude comes a little way our clear jetty.  Yes, perhaps  perhaps there will be something cooler in the morning.  coming like a whipped up line and sliver of rock.  There is no one here and nothing but the great maw of a space  perhaps a twittering of resonant birds.  These are the voices the silence that belies the shape of a copse.  even patterns in nature doubt is like that.  a needle with four other needles around it on a brach separate objects but one obese monument called branch when put together.  In fractal sanctity the answer is a thing that lies ahead.  It doesn't come readily.  but it..you can see the skating dove of viens in how a leaf falls.  No one here.  nothing but the shape and absurdity of emptiness.  malleable cusp of a copse well designed and evenly paced.  

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