Tim Love
@timlovewriter.bsky.social
Poetry (HappenStance), short stories (Nine Arches Press) and nowadays mostly Flash. See https://litrefs.blogspot.com/ for details
"Art arises out of our desire for both beauty and truth and our knowledge that they are not identical", Auden
"Every poem starts out as either true or beautiful. Then you try to make the true ones seem beautiful and the beautiful ones true" - Larkin
"Every poem starts out as either true or beautiful. Then you try to make the true ones seem beautiful and the beautiful ones true" - Larkin
July 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
"Art arises out of our desire for both beauty and truth and our knowledge that they are not identical", Auden
"Every poem starts out as either true or beautiful. Then you try to make the true ones seem beautiful and the beautiful ones true" - Larkin
"Every poem starts out as either true or beautiful. Then you try to make the true ones seem beautiful and the beautiful ones true" - Larkin
Ok, so you don't get the scribbly dynamism of poetryschool.com/poems/how-to... or flaubert.univ-rouen.fr/manuscrits but in compensation it's possible (I haven't done it) to analyse the development of a text, colour-coding the lines according to age/number-of-changes.
Manuscrits · Centre Gustave Flaubert
Édition intégrale des manuscrits de Madame Bovary et de Bouvard et Pécuchet (1er volume). Autres manuscrits conservés à la Bibliothèque municipale de Rouen. Inventaire des manuscrits. Transcriptions....
flaubert.univ-rouen.fr
June 2, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Ok, so you don't get the scribbly dynamism of poetryschool.com/poems/how-to... or flaubert.univ-rouen.fr/manuscrits but in compensation it's possible (I haven't done it) to analyse the development of a text, colour-coding the lines according to age/number-of-changes.
When I program (I could do poems the same way), a click lets me save and recover versions. I can create branches and compare versions side-by-side. With a click I can back-up to the cloud. In my will I can leave instructions to make the back-up visible to all. Nothing's lost - even my mistakes.
June 2, 2025 at 3:33 PM
When I program (I could do poems the same way), a click lets me save and recover versions. I can create branches and compare versions side-by-side. With a click I can back-up to the cloud. In my will I can leave instructions to make the back-up visible to all. Nothing's lost - even my mistakes.