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Alan , stop gawking at me , you'll make me nervous.
When I was a junior in hs a senior who rode the same bus told me he was having writer's block and needed to write a poem for his yearbook . I told him I didn't know how to rhyme very well and didn't know about writer's block , he told me that poems can be long or short , they can rhyme , but ; they didn't have to . I wanted to know what the catch was , because that sounded way too easy . He said that it had to be something that you were emotional about. Next morning , I brought him in a little poem that didn't rhyme and it ended up in his yearbook , that kinda made me smile.
Twelve or thirteen years later I did some writing in a creative writing class and really enjoyed it , short stories , mostly. Twenty something years later I posted some songs on a buletin board and a friend said , hey , those are terriffic , you ought to send them to a record company . Sorta hit a brick wall there and I wasn't trying to get a record deal , or nothing.
A year or so later , I was looking around at songwriting contests , I noticed that jpf's was free and wasn't 30 bucks apiece sure that they were that good , so , I brought them here to get critiqued and am I glad I did , well after the initial shock of finding out that they weren't that great and had problems with them.
Still here three years , or so , later . I didn't figure I could write a song , until , one day , I tried just out of the blue. Still working at it and with all the pointers and help I'm getting around here , I'm sure to make it . No hurry , though.
Pete