Poetry question

[jennythereader]

Around 11 o'clock this morning, I posted the first draft of this poem. I revised it repeatedly throughout the day. The last revision was around 5:00.

My question is: would you guys have preferred I keep the earlier drafts visible in some way?

Comments

[gwenlianna.livejournal.com]

I saw at least one of the drafts that you had posted earlier. For people who aren't on vacation and checking the interwebs 15 times a day, it might be neat to have some way to see the earlier drafts, as a way of seeing the process. Maybe as a cut, or having the completed poem as a new entry?

I don't know that this is actually necessary, since the poem stands on its own just fine without background process information. Just an idea, if sharing the process was something that you had wanted to do.

[jennythe-reader.livejournal.com]

I always think it's interesting to watch a piece of art evolve, but I know not everyone agrees with me.

I was thinking either have the earlier drafts behind a cut, with only the most recent visible outside of it, or move the earlier drafts to comments and keep only the current version in the actual post.

[dwarven-brewer.livejournal.com]

+1 on the cuts idea. It's neat to watch it all evolve.

[jennythe-reader.livejournal.com]

Cool.

I'll start using cuts for any additional edits I make to it.