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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT><BR><B><I>Dawn Rummel
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<DIV>Question: How do you, personally, work to become a better bard?</DIV>
<DIV><BR><BR>Antonia/Dawn<BR><BR><FONT face=Tahoma>Listening. Lots and lots
of listening. And interspersed with lots and lots of watching and observing.
Then there's the reading...lots and lots of reading. When all 3 meet
together in one place, then comes</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT face=Tahoma size=5>THE INSPIRATION</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Tahoma>Which then quickly turns into the
writing....lots and lots of writing...and revising...lots and lots of
revising...and rewording...and reworking...then comes the rereading and the
rehearsing....then finally...perhaps...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT face=Tahoma size=5>THE PERFORMANCE</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Tahoma>Then comes the critiquing and hopefully an
accolade or two...or at least a shiny eye from the audience...but the best
is when another bard (especially someone who never wrote or performed
before) tells you that it was your work which inspired them to do the
same. After all of that, then perhaps there is the teaching....but the
performance can do that all by itself...some learn best by example.
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