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[rayheinrich]

Hello! My name's Jess. I've been an aspiring writer for most of my life, although I never finished novels I'm working on. Procrastinator, lol. I only just started writing poetry back in October when I fell in love. I've lost the one I fell in love with, but I'm still writing. I can't stop. If I hold in what's inside me I'm going to implode, so I write. I am looking to improve on what I've been doing- I essentially know nothing about the proper ways to write poetry/songs, so I hope what I'm doing is not as horrid as I sometimes feel it is. I look forward to feedback and learning from the amazing people and information on this site.

While procrastination is potentially possible in poetry (it takes many years of practice and is one
of the skills many of us here have mastered), putting off writing 50 words is a much harder task than putting
off writing 40,000. And while procrastination is frequently a co-symptom of the brain defects that are the root
cause of short attention spans (none of us here have had to spend any effort at all mastering these); it is,
comfortingly enough, a characteristic shared by most of the great poets (especially the Japanese haiku masters).

The above is all by way of welcoming you to a fictional world populated by imaginary people who
are more than willing to help you forge an imagination capable of fashioning fictional worlds.

As sincere as ever,
Ray