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We set aside a time, one hour for a meeting; our search for a room hindered by our search for the solution. Can we set aside a day for creation and have a canvas we can all paint on at the same time in the same room and order ice cream or chip-shop chips whilst we make our master design? Then do you think we can turn our idea into a real life innovation? Or do we continue to scavenge old buildings for neglected conference rooms once booked by occupants no longer present. Do we panic about the problem and confirm we are in shit before we've truly understood the colour, depth, and complexity of the shit? Do you think we could stick to our pl

Wind tip-tapping against steel pipes desperate to attract attention, off desolate rooftops        where there's no blue skies but the lingering pollution of                                        yesterday's work.        The wind infers longing, where they once worked,        sweeping each corner in search of their presence or past existence, a distance too far of just what happened and why now absent. Still tipping and raising the alarm,                there must be someone there- a twisted gust takes one more lap of hope. no more than hope.                                Like a stalker, it hunts Machinery has rusted, as cr

Tips For The Novice It's an all-too common occurrence on my periodic forays into the world of internet poetry - writing weakened by a lack of fundamental knowledge concerning the essence of poetry writing. There are no rules set in stone about creative writing. The writer that strikes new trails can make a lasting impact on the world of poetry, but the chances of a writer stumbling upon golden words without a solid knowledge base are slim to none. The following tips for novice writers are intended to help shore up those fundamentals, to help the young writer breathe the essence of life into their poems, and to better share that essence with

***Tips For the Novice (and otherwise) - Editing*** The blanket statement, "Editing/revision harms poetry," is simply wrong.  It's akin to a photographer claiming that focusing the lens ruins the emotion of the photograph.  It is the details, and the appropriate attention paid to them, that separate a photograph from a snapshot.  Imagine a film maker slapping every frame he shot up on the screen without editing for continuity, for pacing, for effect.  What a disaster.  That is not to say that editing can't be destructive - there is such a thing as poor editing, just as there is poor writing.  But done correctly, done well, it is one of the m

Since the beginning of suture, the goal has always been to aid aspiring writers and poets to learn to focus their work into something that transcends simple "expressing one's self". One might claim that such an endeavor is "the blind leading the blind" in a community such as DeviantArt, due to the "amateur" nature of those involved. It is true, most of us involved don't have any kind of awe-inspiring credentials as to the validity of our criticism of much of the work submitted to DA -- except for one thing: Our work. I challenge anyone to peruse the galleries of those involved with Suture and not come to the conclusion that, although we may

Bluster Chapter 2 I'm at a small toy fair in Middlesex when the call comes. Last day before I'm due to begin the assignment. I move around the various tables in a pleasant reverie, half-recognising many of the stallholders from the last toy fair I went to - evidently, many of them move around the country from fair to fair.          I'm not really looking for anything, although there is the vague intention, somewhere at the back of my mind, to buy a model of a Ford RS200 rally car.  This stems from a conversation I had earlier in the morning with Nicole, which began as I was wriggling i