> > NEVER throw away, delete, or get rid of something you've written. No matter how inconsequential or embarrassing it may seem, it almost always comes back to haunt you. Years later, you say to yourself, "I vaguely remember writing something about that. I wonder where it is." You spend hours searching for it, only to remember that you shredded it in a spree of house cleaning.
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> > Ell"Keeper of things"myruh
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> I agree with you about that. I have kept almost every poem and story I've ever written. There are over 400 poems in various binders in my room...lol. Hmm...I keep everything, too. I still have my kindergarten journal and other grade school projects that I keep in shirt boxes. Someday when I'm a published author, somebody might want that stuff and I could give it to someone who admires me.
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> ~Den-"hope it's just not wishful thinking"Kara

Hmmm... Poetry, eh? I have a big folder full of poetry in my desk... Unfortunately, I'm afraid to look at it. I stopped writing the stuff five or six years ago, and I know most of it is full of bad teenage angst... Still, I wonder if anything in there is good enough to be worth reading?

Don "The Monkey'Anyone here immune to angst and willing to come slog through hundreds of poems looking for gold?'man" Jackson