DANIEL E. BLACKSTON
  • Home
  • Stone Secrets Blog
  • SERVICES
    • POETRY FEEDBACK
    • Critiques and Editing
    • Poem Polisher
  • 7 Secrets of Poetry
  • Blackston Bio
  • Discover
  • ESSAYS
    • Non-Local Consciousness
    • Self-Identity
    • Being and Knowing
    • ​Concerning Kandinsky
    • Existential Metaphors
    • Sylvia Plath's "Tulips"
    • Sylvia Plath's "Blackberrying"
    • Sylvia Plath’s Ariel
  • MISSION
  • OCCULT & MAGICK
    • Ghost Flower
  • "Kaddish"
         STONE SECRETS  ​ 

   Creativity & Reflections
by Daniel E. Blackston

Notebook Notions

5/19/2023

0 Comments

 
Picture
My notebook is filling up quite fast since I determined to write a poem every day.  Some general observations about writing poems by hand in a notebook:

1) It makes it easier for someone like me who typically overwrites to keep things simple.

2) I usually write the entire first draft without stopping. If I'm typing instead of writing by hand, I tend to revise in process and also look things up!

3) I'm writing fully in my own voice. When I type instead of writing by hand, I notice I tend to echo other poets more frequently.

4) When it comes down to typing up poems, I can take a slow, careful look at the draft and build on it.

5) I tend to keep a sharper focus because I'm writing short poems, usually no more than a single page.

6) The poems, as a whole, are a lot stronger than when I type first drafts.

7) The notebook becomes like an actual book of poetry as I write it and I can read over the drafts, like reading another poet, many times before I get around to typing and revising them.

This may only be the case for now. I'm wide open to changing my métier at any time, almost at the drop of a hat. I feel  very strongly that a poet should try many different approaches, although I also feel we each have a certain comfort zone. For example, I like to write nature themed poems in tercets. If my life depended on writing a poem, that's probably where I'd start. But that doesn't mean I shouldn't experiment with city themed prose poems -- or sonnets about the "supreme" court.

At any rate, I plan to change the size of the notebook when I fill this one up. My biggest problem is finding gel pens that I can rely on and that feel right to me. The last ones I bought are excellent, but they don't have any labels on the actual pens, like absolutely nothing, and I threw the package away so I don't remember what brand they are! 
​
Tally
Poems Written: 297
Submission Tally: 47
Rejections: 17 (10 tiered)  
Acceptances: 0
Poems written today: "Park Sprinklers"​, "Cherry Climb"
poem polisher
7 secrets of poetry

Categories

All
Camille Ralphs
Egghead Analysis
Facebook Poets
Mentors
Michael Cunliffe
Music
My Poetry
Poem Polishing
Poem Reviews
Poem Submissions
Poem Writing
Poetry Tips
Portrait Poems
Precognitive Poems
Rattle Poetry
Secret Weapons
Submissions
Surrealism
Sylvia Plath
Talk To Daniel
The Ariel Method

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.
  • Home
  • Stone Secrets Blog
  • SERVICES
    • POETRY FEEDBACK
    • Critiques and Editing
    • Poem Polisher
  • 7 Secrets of Poetry
  • Blackston Bio
  • Discover
  • ESSAYS
    • Non-Local Consciousness
    • Self-Identity
    • Being and Knowing
    • ​Concerning Kandinsky
    • Existential Metaphors
    • Sylvia Plath's "Tulips"
    • Sylvia Plath's "Blackberrying"
    • Sylvia Plath’s Ariel
  • MISSION
  • OCCULT & MAGICK
    • Ghost Flower
  • "Kaddish"