BLoGGiNG aRouND DoS

Steph wrote about the difficulty in editing a poem, sometimes having to omit things you initially really liked:

love this post, steph... When I first wrote my poem, i had so many great ideas and it all just, came together SO WELL and i thought it would be perfect... needless to say I was SHOCKED when i found out it wasn't an A+ poem. So I got rid of the stuff i wasn't ABSOLUTELY in love with and replaced it with even better stuff. When I still didn't get my A+ i had to take a few steps back and realize that my opinion wasn't the ONLY one that matters in a poem... but it's still really tough to give up what you love about a poem to please someone else.

Mitch also wrote about editing his poem (am i the ONLY one who didn't?)... and how it's trick to avoid fixating on just one little phrase at a time:

There may be a better way for you, but for some people, this could be the best way. Or maybe there is no best way. It's so hard to know when you've got something "right" in your poem, especially after rewriting it so many times. Editing a particular phrase in a poem can be very difficult to do without messing up something else. There's a delicate balance to keep. Good Luck!