Point of Reference
The Revision Process, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Poem


The first draft seems incomplete, so a focus for the narrator is added:


A few more minor changes:


The sequence of action is changed by making the second strophe now the first:


Adding something new:


Rearranging:


Blech. Heh. Time to backtrack and kill some darlings:


Bling! Not wanting to clobber the reader over the head, the final strophe is dropped:


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