How and where do u write poetry?
A HitchHiker Poet
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How do u set the mood to write poerty??
For me its a glass of wine, the weather, or a certain song
For me its a glass of wine, the weather, or a certain song
Don't need a raincoat, I'm already wet..
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Thought right now I am having a bit of writer's block.
Trance-writing/Meta-writing brings out some of the best qualities in my stories. But I find it hard to sustain a trance in which I can both admire the creative qualities of my unconscious mind, and yet write it out at the same time with my consciousmind. I do manage to pull it off well now and then though. But my center and energy balance has to meet certain conditions, conditions I find hard to use any other way.
I figured... you live in Ireland... What better place to find more things over Celtic and Druid times.
writing poetry......I guess I just sit down....in front of the computer.....and a poem comes out......just think of the first words and the rest follows.....I don't have to be in any particular type of mood or surroundings.....I've been writing poems since I was 15, when my English Teacher infused a love of lit into me....and after I read the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations cover to cover.....
i usually type it out on a computer
i try my best not to force myself to write....
before i begin to type i think of a unqiue phrase that illustrates how i'm feeling....and then i frame what comes after around that phrase......sometimes it may take 10 minutes....sometimes 10 days to complete
music helps when i write
I find forcing myself to write sometimes yields the best results. If I don't write on a consistent schedule I get lazy, rusty. The wheels can stop turning.
Phrases, titles and subjects for poems often pop into my head while I'm working (I'm a short-order cook) or listening to the radio.
I write in the early afternoons, on a computer if I'm at home, or longhand in a notebook if I go to a park or coffee shop.
If I'm at home, I write in silence. If I'm out somewhere, I usually end up writing about what I see and hear.
There is no particular place where I write, I do it just everywhere I am, but mostly it happens at home, when in my room, all alone.
Hm... And always I have this urge of writting when not in such a good mood.
1. I even find this interesting... The part where you say that when forcing yourself to write sometimes gives out the best results... It's kinda odd for me, coz everything that has been forced never turned out the way it should be... But that's just me
2. That happens to me quite often when at work too. It will all start at work, such as a thought or a verse and ends when Im home.
Don't get me wrong...forcing myself to write often results in HORRIBLE poetry...but it can also cause great things to happen. A professor of mine once told me it was like excercising a muscle. If you only did it when you wanted to, you'd never get strong.
Hm... There are times when I just want to write something, but with no success... Maybe I should try harder when it comes to forcing, coz that professor of yours has right.
But I yet believe that when it all comes spontaneuosly gives the best results
Quite probably...but if your practicing even when you don't feel like writing, the spontaneous writing will eventually be even better.
a. in the bathroom doing number 2
b. in the shower
c. in bed
d. listen to songs
e. reading
f. most importanly experiences
~You laugh because I am different, I laugh because you are all the fucking same -?~
~Education is the most powerfull weapon you can use to change the world - Nelson Mandela~
At home: when I get up and enjoy a stick and a tea and look out the window at the fine world I live in.
also when I come home from the bar.
On my bicycle: when I stop to take in life and the smallest things seem to be bigger than I thought they were.
In the car: when I am waiting for my better half to come out and join me for the ride.
of course ocassional insomnia helps, as well as a good left-handed cigarrette:)
"the punishment suffered by the wise who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of bad men."
plato
if you look at life through rose colored glasses you are going to bump into alot of pink things
Usually I have to go outside. I go to the park or somewhere that no one can possibly intterupt my thought pattern.
I generally can't just sit down and write somethign either, there has to be something going on in my life for me to write about.
Most of the time I have to write a whole page of garbage before what I want to come out really comes out too.