tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508563923634392703.post2751810604151125555..comments2023-12-28T13:11:06.666+00:00Comments on Pics and Poems: A Hundred, thousand million sonnetsDave Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08430484174826768488noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508563923634392703.post-21252384186080355662008-01-21T01:45:00.000+00:002008-01-21T01:45:00.000+00:00Plaited pictures, what a fascinating idea. Please ...Plaited pictures, what a fascinating idea. Please do try one and post the results, Dave, even if not successful. This remind me, somehow, of crocheting jewelry, another mixed art form.Conda Douglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12972790965426924941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508563923634392703.post-28225018592421785752008-01-18T09:21:00.000+00:002008-01-18T09:21:00.000+00:00Yes, I can see where you're coming from. As exerci...Yes, I can see where you're coming from. As exercises, to stretch a writer, I can see the benefits. It's like you say about restraint being liberating, it sets free a side of the writer that they may rarely access in these anything-goes days. <BR/><BR/>Your article makes me think of two things, firstly, programming and, secondly, piano playing. When I bought my first computer (a ZX81) I think it has 16 kilobytes of memory – my current one has 160 gigabytes – and to do any real programming with a tiny amount of memory like that you have to get creative. Nowadays programmers can afford to be sloppy because memory simply isn't a problem. And one of the things I hated about learning, or a least trying to learn, the piano was doing scales and exercises. As I writer I never think to do exercises – unless you count things like Scrabble or the odd crossword – and I think I'm a weaker writer because of that. Free verse sounds liberating but I always try and impose some structure on what I write. I feel better about the work when it has a definite shape.Jim Murdochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.com