yay fountain
Dec. 1st, 2003 03:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
godreamBeing EIC means I've gotten used to being more -- I don't want to say aggressive, I want a less confrontational word -- more assertive, more bold about my opinions in Fountain meetings. (If only because sometimes, *someone* has to say something relevant already.)
Which means it's the strangest thing in the world to sit quietly and resist going "it's deliberately ambiguous dammit!" when my poems come 'round. (Because god forbid I confine myself to just ONE meaning.) I want so badly to say "look at my pretty enjambment obsession! see, I chose THIS word because..." and at the same time I know that if I can't keep my mouth shut then the poem's not standing on its own, and probably not worth printing anyways.
But it's still so very tempting to tell people that you missed this or that meaning, and obviously this image implies that that word... and so on, and so forth. Downright painful, I tell you.
Anyways -- Autumn and Points of Intersection... are in, which makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. According to the staff the latter is cute -- I'm not quite sure what I feel about that. But people said all sorts of nice things, which really does make my day. :) And on the other one which is not yet decided on, people said useful things which I may or may not take into account on a second draft. Third, actually, at this point, which is unusual for me who falls in love with my own silly words and can't bear to change them a bit. Anyways, we'll see.
Which means it's the strangest thing in the world to sit quietly and resist going "it's deliberately ambiguous dammit!" when my poems come 'round. (Because god forbid I confine myself to just ONE meaning.) I want so badly to say "look at my pretty enjambment obsession! see, I chose THIS word because..." and at the same time I know that if I can't keep my mouth shut then the poem's not standing on its own, and probably not worth printing anyways.
But it's still so very tempting to tell people that you missed this or that meaning, and obviously this image implies that that word... and so on, and so forth. Downright painful, I tell you.
Anyways -- Autumn and Points of Intersection... are in, which makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. According to the staff the latter is cute -- I'm not quite sure what I feel about that. But people said all sorts of nice things, which really does make my day. :) And on the other one which is not yet decided on, people said useful things which I may or may not take into account on a second draft. Third, actually, at this point, which is unusual for me who falls in love with my own silly words and can't bear to change them a bit. Anyways, we'll see.
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Date: 2003-12-01 02:13 pm (UTC):hugs you and runs off:
-ashlee
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Date: 2003-12-03 04:36 pm (UTC)::hugs back before you can escape::