This is a picture of my friend Tim. As you may know I have been working on revamping the 12 books in the "Poetic Prescription" series for the last couple of years... some of the revamping has to do with feedback that I've gotten back based on submissions to publishers, some of which when over my head at the time because I was so emotional about the rejection. But just as I was ready to send my manager the 5th or 6th rewrite on the first book "Poetic Prescriptions for Plaguing Problems" my friend Tim, who is a fabulous writer and has studied Shakespeare in depth, showed me a way to make my "good" poems "great". In brief, he was telling me that different languages usually use different amounts of syllables when they spoke that would come naturally... so though in my 5th or 6th redo, I had all syllables match e.g., 16 syllables per line for each line throughout for consistency, I found 10 is usually the max number one would want for the English language. Putting this into practice was difficult at first, but I ended up finding it would work better because the first publisher of my book "Poetic Prescriptions for Pesky Problems" ending up having to cut my lines off in weird places because I made each line far too long and it wouldn't fit on a normal book page. It has taken many months to transform what I've written once again with that in mind, as well as trying to stick with more masculine endings...which I don't always because it doesn't always work for what I'm trying to express. But I think the most important thing here is that we are in a constant state of learning and growing, and that is important. I may have always had a good message...but now let's add some style to it, and make it better. He sees a vast improvement in my writing using these and has now posed the question of "meter" to me, which right now is a very large elephant in my living room that I am trying to ignore.