English Lit. Week 8. (technically)

[john_mahoney]

Ok, I know this is a late entry but I have an excuse. I was planning on posting a poem I've been writing in my common place book. The problem is it's rubbish. It has gone through three writings and I'm still far from happy with it. I cannot rhyme and find the words tend to trip over each other.

So having not managed a (good) creative piece I'll

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[reilly88]

Your observations in regards to creative writing are also shared by me. Reading this entry of yours, I really related to the dreaded process of writing, rewriting and contemplation. The worst part of trying to find a rhyming word (for me) is that I keep thinking of onw or two words that are the same that are not appropriate for the poem.

That DVD sounds very interesting. Do you think Shakespeare had any idea of the contributions he was making to the English language as an entity? When I read your journal, I had a chilling memory of a very sanitised teacher years ago who told his students that it was virtually a crime to make new words. Obviously in the setting of a Year 9 English classroom, I can see his perspective...I'm just glad that he was not William Shakespeare's teacher!!

Thanks for sharing your observations