WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

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workaholism

March 20, 2006

The Artist’s Way ~ Week 10: Recovering a Sense of Self-Protection

In this chapter, Cameron talks about blocks — the whats, whys and hows. She talks about the usuals — food, work, and sex — and the less recognized: For others, an obsession with painful love places creative choice outside their hands. Reaching for the painful thought, they become instant victims rather than feel their own… Continue reading

The Artist’s Way

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Ancestral (Artificial )Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. For me, writing is how I think, and I prefer to do it myself. If/when I post anything here that I suspect or know to be AI generated, I will tell you.

I have changed this from Artificial to Ancestral, after Abi Awomosu @ Substack. This medium was made with human history, human thought. All of it, bright and dark. It is ancestral.

Poems

Please do not assume that I am the speaker/ subject of my poems.

In these times of creative nonfiction and fictionalized memoirs, I think of the poem itself as true fiction: it is most likely not factual, but it must be true.

It is likely to be — it is best if it is — a truth I did not know before I wrote, and may not understand even then.

A poem is my way of discovering (dis-covering) what I feel; sometimes, what I think — but it is not necessarily biographical.

workaholism

The Artist’s Way ~ Week 10: Recovering a Sense of Self-Protection