What's your style?

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Psst. It's "stream of consciousness", not conscience.

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Sometimes I write very structured, such as Idle Hands. In that case, I edited heavily through the whole process to get the rhyming scheme to work.
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More often, I go for more prose-style with little to no structure. In those cases, I do a lot less editing while initially composing it, though I stop short of pure stream of conscience, struggling for better wording on some lines. And then I can't leave it alone. Once I'm done, I go back and edit for word choice, tweak the meter, and clean up puncuation, which I invariable use completely inconsistently the first time through.

This, I think, is Poetry Writing Standard Procedure. Unless you're someone that ALWAYS writes in one exact style, switching things up means that when you do a less structured work you have to go back and fix punctuation/line breaks/capitalization/etc. High structure means you don't continue unless the line you just wrote fits in.

Many times I'll write a poem just because I'll get a line in my head and I'll build a poem around that. Building up the rest of it to match the one idea is interesting to me. Sometimes the one line stands out too much, sometimes I want it to stand out, sometimes I can actually bury it in a poem with lines of equal power and no one would know which was the original. The latter can be the most rewarding. It's as if I created my own "writing assignment" and did well on it.

So for me, it's rare, if not never, that anyone sees an untouched piece exactly as I initially wrote it. I find that interesting.

Heh, I know for you this is a big deal (I remember that discussion-turned-argument after watching Dead Poets Society) but for me, showing someone an untouched piece is like watching an unedited movie or wearing a dress without a hem.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

Heh, I know for you this is a big deal (I remember that discussion-turned-argument after watching Dead Poets Society) but for me, showing someone an untouched piece is like watching an unedited movie or wearing a dress without a hem.

Hmm, refresh me as to what my stance was at the time...I only vaguely recall this one.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Hmm, refresh me as to what my stance was at the time...I only vaguely recall this one.

You said that the original draft of poetry was very, very important, just as important as the finished product. That it deserved display. I said no, I didn't want anyone to see my draft, and that I loved crossing things out and basically distroying my original draft, and that what was important was the diamond, not the coal.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

Psst. It's "stream of consciousness", not conscience.

Blast. I had it originally as consciousness, but I read it one too many times while proof reading the post and it started to look wrong, so I changed it. Dang.