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Originally Posted by kennyc
I know but it makes it sound as if poetry is easy and simple compared to a novel when in fact it can be the opposite. 
It's not about re-typing.... |
I used to use a manual typewriter, too; and I hated doing revisions in those days, largely because of the sheer amount of time it took for re-typing.
I type slow, and the prospect of retyping a 100,000 word novel (a project that would probably take me 50-60 hours of straight typing) scares the bejeezus out of me. That's not worrying about revisions, that's straight typing time.
A poem or short story didn't create the same element of fear because I knew I wouldn't have to spend the same amount of time typing.
For me, writing (and the difficulty thereof) is not the same as typing. A good poem can take a year or more to write, just like a novel; but that year's going to include a lot less typing on my part.