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Thesis Progress
Jul. 13th, 2004 10:10 pmFor the first time in awhile, I feel hopeful and excited about my thesis, rather than scared and overwhelmed. I'd scheduled a meeting with my director for this evening, and just knowing that I was going to see him and talk about it seemed to inspire me. I got off work early because one of my students didn't show up, and used the extra time to revise a couple of poems that had been be-deviling me for awhile.
I am Revision-Girl! My erratic writing process drives me crazy sometimes, but I think I'm starting to understand it a little better. I'm not someone who works steadily, a little bit at a time. I follow the initial generative impulse, and then the poem tends to lie fallow for awhile, until I suddenly see the shape of the next draft, all at once. For instance, the poems that I worked on today were initially written two years ago, and I've hung onto them, reading them over but not doing any significant revision, because I knew there was something good in them that shouldn't be abandoned, but I couldn't figure out where they needed to go next. And today I saw where they needed to go.
I am Revision-Girl! My erratic writing process drives me crazy sometimes, but I think I'm starting to understand it a little better. I'm not someone who works steadily, a little bit at a time. I follow the initial generative impulse, and then the poem tends to lie fallow for awhile, until I suddenly see the shape of the next draft, all at once. For instance, the poems that I worked on today were initially written two years ago, and I've hung onto them, reading them over but not doing any significant revision, because I knew there was something good in them that shouldn't be abandoned, but I couldn't figure out where they needed to go next. And today I saw where they needed to go.
