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My name is Joy, and I love to write. Why poetry, here? Because poetry uplifts its writer, and if she is lucky enough, her readers, too. Around us, so many objects abound to write about. Once a poet starts with a smallest, most trivial object, he shall discover that his pen will spill out what is most delicate or most majestic hidden inside him. Since the classics sometimes dealt with lofty subjects with a lofty language, a person with poetry in his soul may incline to emulate that. That is understandable. Poetry does that to a person: it enlarges the soul and gives it wings. Yet, to really soar, a poet needs to take off from the ground. ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only **
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Jun 26, 2008 at 7:12pm
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Sam Smiley
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Every now and then I re-read books I've read in the past -- it isn't just fiction, but the odd factual book too. I recently came across a new (to me!) version of Sam Smiley's "Playwriting: The Structure of Action". I'll let you know what I think of it when I've re-read it, but I remember it being a huge influence in my earlier writing. I guess I'm bringing it up here to highlight it as a 'good read' (I will do a product review at some point *Blush*), and I wondered if anyone else had memories of books which made an impact on their development as dramatic writers?
Felix.

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· 06-26-08 7:12pm
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