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poisonedwriter — waiting for Experience
Published: 2007-05-01 15:09:43 +0000 UTC; Views: 136; Favourites: 0; Downloads: 1
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i am Young and Ignorantwhat will i write about?
what do i know of
Life and her mysteries?
NOTHING.
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
i have not felt Hemingway's Frustration
i have not known Steinbeck's Loneliness
i have not reveled in Byron's Passion
i have not suffered Tennyson's Loss
i have not had Austen's Joy
i have nothing.
nothing anyone wants to read, anyway.
when will IT come?
25?
35?
50?
can i wait so long?
if i wait, will i lose?
maybe someone else will come along
and beat me to the Punch
The Brilliant Idea
the IT i've been waiting for
by the time i live enough Experience
IT will all be gone
and there will be NOTHING left for me
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
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This is *perfect*--the eternal writer's dilemma encapsulated!
I believe that Flora, in Cold Comfort Farm addressed much the same thing, when she explained, "Well, when I am fifty-three or so, I would like to write a novel as good as Persuasion, but with a modern setting, of course. For the next thirty years or so I shall be collecting material for it. If anyone asks me what I work at, I shall say, 'Collecting material'. No one can object to that. Besides, so I shall be."
(Have you read it? If not--you really should. Anyone who knows DH Lawrence, Austen, Tennyson and Steinbeck would get a kick out of its over the top satire. The movie's terrific--but it doesn't hold a candle to the book, for anyone really well-read. 
And "Bravo!" for the poem!
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