Hellooooooo, Revisionaries!
This week's revision activity requires you to get your notebook, your stack of paper scraps, your stash of napkins, receipts or movie stubs, your Blackberry or iPhone (whatever the heck you use to jot down poem ideas or dash off free writes). It is helpful if this source of text is NOT your computer or word processor because the first step involves typing. See, you can't type something that's already typed.
So, flip through all your stuff and find some raw text (something you've authored). This could be a phrase, a few lines or a solid page of brainstorming. Type this text exactly as you've captured it long-hand. This now equals your original poem.
Now, play with the original poem anyway you'd like. Turn it into a complete draft. Use some of the tricks we've already attempted in other weeks. Do anything you'd like to do polish it up. The polished version is now your new poem.
This activity serves two purposes: (1) it gets you to develop an idea or a beginning or a concept into a poem and (2) it will, hopefully, give us a peek inside each others processes and open a wonderful dialog. Sounds like fun to me!
When you are done writing, kindly do the following:
1. Post a blog entry with the original poem, the new poem and anything you would like to say about your process.
2. Leave the link* in this forum anytime this week, February 1-7.
3. Visit the work of your fellow Revisionaries!
*if you do not have a blog, feel free to post text directly into the forum.
