[Bards] Discussion question

[Cathy Polakoff]

You're a fledgling?!?

Anna bat Chaim

At 02:53 PM 7/29/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>Personally, I break up being a bard into three areas: 1) education 
>(researching and learning period and not-so-period pieces, technique, 
>teaching), 2) composition (writing original pieces), and 3) application 
>(performance, publication, teaching).
>
>In my opinion, all three aspects are equally important.  For a specific 
>example, let's look at sonnets.  I started by reading and learning about 
>period sonnets, and talking to others about them.  Then I took what I 
>learned and applied it to my own original sonnets.  Then I've had my 
>sonnets published in newsletters and I perform them quite often.  Soon, 
>I'll be teaching a class on sonnet writing.  I'm far from an expert, but 
>the process of applying them to my 'three aspects of bardic' has given me 
>a good appreciation, understanding, and utilization of the form.
>
>How I improve each of the three elements varies and could be addressed 
>separately (and probably at some length), but these are the three "broad 
>elements" that I look at.  I'm still a fledgling bard though, so my 
>opinion is subject to change over time. ;)
>
>~Alden
>
>
>
>Dawn Rummel <dsrummel at yahoo.com> wrote:
>Question: How do you, personally, work to become a better bard?
>
>
>
>Antonia/Dawn
>
>It's the little things in life...
>
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