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TristanIsolde

(272 posts) Sat Jun 13, 2020, 08:40 PM Jun 2020

Whenever I feel blocked in any creative endeavor

I fall back to this Bukowski poem:

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Whenever I feel blocked in any creative endeavor (Original Post) TristanIsolde Jun 2020 OP

This is cool. Thx for posting. But, I'm a details guy and... Beartracks Jun 2020 #1

Sorry about that, I did not make the video TristanIsolde Jun 2020 #2

No problem at all! I just thought it was funny since... Beartracks Jun 2020 #5

I disagree with much of this. Squinch Jun 2020 #3

Great sly humor torius Jun 2020 #4

I think it does require you to sit down when you don't feel like it Beringia Jun 2020 #6

Beartracks

(14,653 posts)

1. This is cool. Thx for posting. But, I'm a details guy and...

Reply to TristanIsolde (Original post)

Sat Jun 13, 2020, 08:45 PM

Jun 2020

... there's two naked guys at 0:58 - 1:04!

"So if you want to feel the heat of the roaring fire against your naked skin... don't do it."

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TristanIsolde

(272 posts)

2. Sorry about that, I did not make the video

Reply to Beartracks (Reply #1)

Sat Jun 13, 2020, 09:28 PM

Jun 2020

Beartracks

(14,653 posts)

5. No problem at all! I just thought it was funny since...

Reply to TristanIsolde (Reply #2)

Sat Jun 13, 2020, 11:45 PM

Jun 2020

... it's probably up on YouTube, I imagine?

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Squinch

(60,069 posts)

3. I disagree with much of this.

Reply to TristanIsolde (Original post)

Sat Jun 13, 2020, 09:34 PM

Jun 2020

I think it was Stephen King who said something like, "Amateurs sit around and wait for inspiration. Writers show up every day and write."

I'm sure I'm mangling the quote, but I have the sentiment right, and I agree with it.

torius

(1,652 posts)

4. Great sly humor

Reply to TristanIsolde (Original post)

Sat Jun 13, 2020, 11:23 PM

Jun 2020

From a maestro.

Beringia

(5,625 posts)

6. I think it does require you to sit down when you don't feel like it

Reply to TristanIsolde (Original post)

Sun Jun 14, 2020, 10:56 AM

Jun 2020

Maybe Bukowski didn't need that.

Mike Royko, columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times who wrote a daily column, said to young woman reporter, he had blood coming out of his hands every night, hard to write.

James Dickey (he wrote Deliverance) said a poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

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