Do you write your best stuff....

[Guest]

....when you're hurt'n? Or does happy make you productive?

Personally it doesn't seem to make much difference but I've noticed that there are flurries of angst-ridden poems now and then.

I just wondered.

 

[WickedEve]

Beat me with a stick (not an ugly one though) and I'll write up a storm. My god, when my husband left, I wrote so many poems. I like the one about him being planted in the ground with his lilies. Oh, the one that I have up today is about when he left. So, yes, I write some decent stuff when I'm upset, but my kids inspire happy poems, and my dad's stories have helped me produce some good ones. So... I guess I don't need to be hurtin'. Put away the stick.

 

[Liar]

Gotta and/or be when writing.

That is all.

Sure, angst and sorrow can fuel poetry. But I write about it later, when I can look back and comprehend it.

No, I'm not anywhere near the stereotypcal bleedin and weepin poet.

#L

 

[minsue]

I couldn't say when I write my 'best' stuff as I've never really written anything I've liked, but I generally only write when I need to in order to get it (whatever 'it' happens to be at the time) out. Sometimes that is when I'm happy, but usually it is the typical angst-ridden schtuff. Somewhere in me, there's a 13 year old drama queen screaming to get out. Occasionally, she escapes, but I try to keep her locked up good.

 

[OT]

It's a bit of a conundrum....

When in my happy place, I tend to "write" but I'm not sitting still long enough to get what's in my head into a printed finished / presentable product.

The melancholy mood is more conducive to sitting still and working through the poem (along with the angst) and getting a finished poem. My threshold for quality is sometimes lowered when blue too, so "finished" is easier to achieve.

So no, I don't think I write "better" when hut'n, but sometimes write more.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

I feel like I write better when I'm stable.

Extreme highs and extreme lows are too distracting, in a way, and writing for me is always more cerebral than intuitive.

 

[JCSTREET]

Tough question Tristesse because

memory is selective - say hurt'n and one may think back to when one was hurt'n and determine how that affected writing

and that thought might block out memories of when poetry was written in other moods.

Mine is intuitive rather than cerebral - cerebral feels like "rigid" to me - focused thought directed at sesquentially working throgh an algorithm to solve a problem

cerebral (to me) is logical whereas poetry is illogical - it is this illogicality which shocks, surprises, jolts, charms, staggers the reader

illogicality resulted from unusual juxtapositions of words e.g. sometimes in forbidden ways which would get marks off in the (cerebral) public school system

Remember how Robert Creeley sort of went all rigid and refused to answer when asked at a party if he had read charles Bukowski.

 

[pink_tulip]

I am productive no matter what type of emotions I am feeling but I am more critical of the things that I write when I am sad. I go through lots of revisions because the sad stuff comes off as whiny. Not at all attractive.

 

[TheDR4KE]

I write best when I'm filled with passion, whether that be the hurting kind, the lusting kind, the loving kind, or the just plain old living kind. Sometimes even the depressed kind works -- or at least writing sometimes helps me in that time.

I don't know what my best stuff is.

I also love time based challenges.

Quack

the D

 

[Eumenides]

Heh. That's kind of what my poem that was posted today is about: Finding a way to write poetry that isn't cliche and gaggarific while being insanely happy. *nods*

 

[perks]

I write when I'm inspired. Pain can do that, so can joy. I've yet to be inspired by the apathetic and mundane. But I'm sure I could be, however, it would be prolly about one poem.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Just for bringing the three of you back here again, this thread has fulfilled more than its duty.

 

[TheDR4KE]

I miss the place lots. I wish I had the time to give it what it deserves, but I'll try harder to give it the time I can rather than use that as an excuse to keep myself blocked.

Thanks for the welcome back

Quack

the D

 

[Guest]

Just for bringing the three of you back here again, this thread has fulfilled more than its duty.

Agreed - if I'd known it was this easy I'd have done it yonks ago.





Quick! Slam the door before they leave again!

 

[Maria2394]

I write when I'm inspired. Pain can do that, so can joy. I've yet to be inspired by the apathetic and mundane. But I'm sure I could be, however, it would be prolly about one poem.

hey Perks
I see the locale on your AV, girl you are SO close to my house you have no idea...your PM box is full I was gonna give you directions so we could go play in th river or sumpin'

 

[Tathagata]

Anger , apathy, lust, enlightenment, love, sadness all can inspire
Most of the stuff i write when I'm " hurt" ie : depressed, doesn't hold up over time
where as the others do, IMHO

 

[Angeline]

I pretty much write every day, so it's gonna happen whether I'm in a happy place or not. I sort of agree with Lauren though--I don't want the immediacy of some emotion mucking around with my trying to produce a poem.

I think I'm most likely to write my best poems when something is on my mind and I'm working through how I feel about it--not upset or elated, but thinking.

And what always motivates me to write is music. I'm usually listening as I write.

And Eumie girl, we need a link to your Inner Poet.

 

[eZ vv]

i wopuldnt say i write better or worse whern im any mood, i write according to my mood or how ive been feeling, for instance if im in a relationship im bound to write more love poemsand if im hurtin my poems will reflect that, trhat said i like my love poems better than my sad ones

 

[lostandfounder]

I find that if I think too hard about a poem it tends to come out forced
and stunted. I write best when my defences are down and I'm being
honest with myself. Sometimes that means letting pain take hold,
sometimes joy. Just let the words flow out, usually it means a lot of
junk to sort through, but sometimes there is a good, honest line or
two in there.

 

[Syndra Lynn]

I barf up poetry prolifically when wounded. I have to squeeze it out of my keyboard when happy. that doesn't mean any of it's good!

I also wrote a poem on the subject: Poetry Chyme

I also get very inspired after a direct connection to the Divine Universe.

Syn

 

[The_Fool]

I write my best poetry when.....okay someone else writes my best poetry. I write best when I am not asleep at the keyboard. Sometimes I hate my job....lots.

Emotions, high or low, inspire us to write something meaningful and relay those emotions to others. Kinda like telling your best friend how happy/how sad you are.

I really think I write my best stuff when I find something mundane and make it meaningful. Highs and lows happen, mundane is all around us.

Okay...where was I? Hey! Who wrote that shit and what the hell does it mean???


Foooooooool

 

[Lady Christabel]

I've never found rhyme or reason as to when I write. It just happens, which is really inconvenient in the middle of rush hour traffic.

 

[Guest]

I've never found rhyme or reason as to when I write. It just happens, which is really inconvenient in the middle of rush hour traffic.

I used to get frustrated when I'd wake up in the middle oh the night with an idea. I'd scribble it down on a pad on my bedside table but - more often than not - I couldn't read it the next day. So..................


I bought a nifty little mini tape recorder and dictate it. It's voice activated so I don't even have to turn it on!

 

[OT]

I used to get frustrated when I'd wake up in the middle oh the night with an idea. I'd scribble it down on a pad on my bedside table but - more often than not - I couldn't read it the next day. So..................


I bought a nifty little mini tape recorder and dictate it. It's voice activated so I don't even have to turn it on!

um... are you ever afraid that your voice activated recorder may pick up some other bedroom noises? (tho they may be equalling inspiring

 

[Guest]

um... are you ever afraid that your voice activated recorder may pick up some other bedroom noises? (tho they may be equalling inspiring

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