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- From: sharon@netlabs.com (Sharon Hopkins)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: Jobs that mess up your writing
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.180426.29025@netlabs.com>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 18:04:26 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul20.140306.1@pembvax1.pembroke.edu> duck@pembvax1.pembroke.edu writes:
- >In article <l6lqoeINNq0j@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM>, tmhoff@oogoody.Corp.Sun.COM (Todd Hoff) writes:
- >> In article 1@pembvax1.pembroke.edu, duck@pembvax1.pembroke.edu () writes:
- >>> [re: programming _actually_ helping my writing]
- >>> [re: also short term effects (deterimental) of newspaper]
- >>
- >> Yes, I can see how it helps in your case. But haiku is a little tough
- >> when all your thoughts are if/then. I also think it's very hard to be
- >> empathetic when your mind is in a logical rut.
- >
- > *Nods* I can understand cases where it wouldn't help although I don't
- > understand why people say programming is not creativity but entirely
- > logical -- I see it 99% creativity and 1% logic....
- >
- > Anyway, yeah I never try to write poems (haiku or otherwise) after working
- > at the newspaper / or programming....
-
- But think what you're missing out on! I can't vouch for the haiku
- (that's Larry Wall's specialty), but I find programming and poetry can
- work very nicely together...
-
-
- #!/usr/bin/perl
-
- APPEAL:
-
- listen (please, please);
-
- open yourself, wide,
- join (you, me),
- connect (us,together),
-
- tell me.
-
- do something if distressed;
-
- @dawn, dance;
- @evening, sing;
- read (books,poems,stories) until peaceful;
- study if able;
-
- write me if-you-please;
-
- sort your feelings, reset goals, seek (friends, family, anyone);
-
- do not die (like this)
- if sin abounds;
-
-
- keys (hidden), open locks, doors, tell secrets;
- do not, I-beg-you, close them, yet.
-
- accept (yourself, changes),
- bind (grief, despair);
-
- require truth, goodness if-you-will, each moment;
-
-
- select (always), length(of-days)
-
-
- # Sharon Hopkins, sharon@netlabs.com
- # Feb. 21, 1991 (mod. 7/24/92)
- # listen (a perl poem)
-