From: davidsands@yahoo.com   
      
   Karla wrote:   
      
   > One can write everyday and remain myopic.  A poetry teacher, a book, the   
   > Greats, all help the writer along the way, like prescriptions for glasses   
   > through the years, focusing, magnifying, crystalizing.  You need to read a   
   > lot, write a lot, and most of all, be patient.   
   >   
   My contention is writing is a craft like music.   
   One cannot "write" everyday an remain myopic. One   
   can scribble everyday, or voice their prejudices,   
   but that is not writing. Writing is a process of   
   self-discovery. The Greats are debatable. The   
   Romantics leave me cold, as if they were shadow   
   puppeteers -- yet I learned from them. I guess I   
   object to deifying anything -- rock stars, poets,   
   politicians. I can't remember who wrote it, but   
   look at "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain"   
   (if you haven't already). It applies to all art.   
   We don't know what we can do until we do it.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)