Ok, let's hope I remember half of what I was going to write in reply to your posting. I'm glad you found the poetry communities on LJ. I have to say I have a fairly ambiguous connection to poetry, it's never been my favourite form of expression, but then I find some I adore and I have to question my previous views on it. But it's a good mental challenge and a way of saying a lot with few words (well, so the famous quotation goes anyway), so keep going with it, I'm glad you have it as a creative outlet.
I want to MUSH again too, btw. If you do decide to go looking for a good MUSH, let me know what you find. I think Dark Age of Camelot should take up less of my time, however much I love the people I play with there.
As for the no-structure thing, this is exactly what happened to me when we moved over to the US and I went from leaving the house at 6am and returning at 7:30pm to having nothing to do all day (at least you have Sylvia to impose some structure). When I then started working from home it was suitably unstructured that it didn't help much. I wanted to take up hobbies, but things got in the way. It's hard to acclimatise, and when we go to the UK I actually want to buckle down into a job again to retrieve some small semblance of structure in my life (plus I like having some disposable income!!). You just have to remember that your life has been going through multiple large changes recently and there's no reason you should feel placid about that, but you shouldn't fear it either. Impose what structure you can, but don't feel guilty about there not being any when that happens. There's a lot of stuff you're interested in, the structure will come - so will the getting used to Sylvia's call on your time as well as the rest of the universe's
ps. I love rigid poetic forms - my speciality of literary crit was in digesting meter and form of poems and guessing which arcane poetic form was being used. I'd love to get back into that some day - maybe I'll do that sometime and re-learn all the right terms (if you can ever find Coleridge's Lesson in Meter to a Schoolboy, I heartily recommend it for separating trochees from amphidexters ;p)
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Date: 2003-05-22 12:21 pm (UTC)I want to MUSH again too, btw. If you do decide to go looking for a good MUSH, let me know what you find. I think Dark Age of Camelot should take up less of my time, however much I love the people I play with there.
As for the no-structure thing, this is exactly what happened to me when we moved over to the US and I went from leaving the house at 6am and returning at 7:30pm to having nothing to do all day (at least you have Sylvia to impose some structure). When I then started working from home it was suitably unstructured that it didn't help much. I wanted to take up hobbies, but things got in the way. It's hard to acclimatise, and when we go to the UK I actually want to buckle down into a job again to retrieve some small semblance of structure in my life (plus I like having some disposable income!!). You just have to remember that your life has been going through multiple large changes recently and there's no reason you should feel placid about that, but you shouldn't fear it either. Impose what structure you can, but don't feel guilty about there not being any when that happens. There's a lot of stuff you're interested in, the structure will come - so will the getting used to Sylvia's call on your time as well as the rest of the universe's
ps. I love rigid poetic forms - my speciality of literary crit was in digesting meter and form of poems and guessing which arcane poetic form was being used. I'd love to get back into that some day - maybe I'll do that sometime and re-learn all the right terms (if you can ever find Coleridge's Lesson in Meter to a Schoolboy, I heartily recommend it for separating trochees from amphidexters ;p)