What pieces of your mind do you use?

[wakingDown]

I am curious. I would like to know if other writers are using the same pieces I am, or if their process is different, and if so, how? I must bypass most memory, as my memory center is shot to hell, so I rely mostly on deep seated emotions, the primal knee-jerk feelings that memory cannot alter. Working with deep fear and deep anger is a challenge, as trying to express them clearly requires feeling them clearly, which is not pleasant.
There are other pieces I use, some sensory input, all but smell (I cannot smell anymore, so I don't write about it as all my memories of smell are suspect because of the defunct memory system) and they are easier to work with, but I feel they do not bring about the spectrum of effects that the deep emotions so thickly invoke.
I would like to know what centers, what pieces of your minds you are using when you write your poetry. I want to see if my mind is working like yours. All comments are welcome.

 

[Angeline]

Hi.

I found your question kind of difficult because I'm using lots of things as I write. Some poems are more about memory others are just trying to convey a feeling or experience. So part of what I write is what I remember mixed in with my imagination and my understanding and, to be honest, obsession with words. So I'm trying to find the precise words to convey whatever my memory and/or imagination comes up with.

One thing I try not to do is write if my emotions are running high, good or bad. I find I produce better writing if I am calm and clear-headed about what I want to say. '

Not sure if that helps, but it's all I've got.

 

[miwildcat]

An interesting question you have posed here. I know for me my emotions do play a big part in the poetry I write as it is my way of being able to vent sometimes my anger frustration and such. I have used I believe just about everything I have in writing sometimes it is difficult to convey a specific feeling because words don't always describe what you want them to no matter how you put them. Also you have to remember that while we as the writers know what the story or poem means the reader may get something entirely different from it

 

[JudasIscariot]

Obviously I'm not on the level most of the poets on here are at.

I find that my ideas come from things I have seen or on most occasions it's just the current train of thought that's crossing my mind. The poems I attempt don't take very long as I write before my mind switches to another topic.

It's a difficult question to answer nonetheless.

 

[wakingDown]

This is good. These are the answers I am seeking. Knowing more about the mental processes and thought mechanics of other writers/authors will help me to understand the processes that are happening in my own mind a little better, I believe. This kind of ideation structure is what I am trying to get a look at, as I have ever only had my own to observe. Now I feel I am getting a chance to see other structures, and I think that will help. At the very least answers like these can help me to begin finding new mental pieces to work from, and new thought centers to base the process in. Thank you to those that have answered so far. I hope I get some more answers, as this kind of insight is very valuable to me.

 

[miwildcat]

I know for me sometimes a poem is taken from something I have seen I wrote one and I do believe I have it posted up that was actually taken from my point o view as well as my husband's that one was a little more difficult to write but it came out good or at least I think it did anyway. But knowing how others write and do things does help as it helps us to grow and see things in a different light and know there are others ways of doing things.

 

[twelveoone]

I am curious. I would like to know if other writers are using the same pieces I am, or if their process is different, and if so, how? I must bypass most memory, as my memory center is shot to hell, so I rely mostly on deep seated emotions, the primal knee-jerk feelings that memory cannot alter. Working with deep fear and deep anger is a challenge, as trying to express them clearly requires feeling them clearly, which is not pleasant.
There are other pieces I use, some sensory input, all but smell (I cannot smell anymore, so I don't write about it as all my memories of smell are suspect because of the defunct memory system) and they are easier to work with, but I feel they do not bring about the spectrum of effects that the deep emotions so thickly invoke.
I would like to know what centers, what pieces of your minds you are using when you write your poetry. I want to see if my mind is working like yours. All comments are welcome.

wtf,
what you are talking about is reptilian stem, or close to it.
As for memory, most memory is sham, a reconstruction of what may or may not have happened. But that is fine, as the object of writing is to induce something in the reader, so in effect you the writer has to construct something similar to a false memory in the reader. Good luck, most of it relies on top level trickery, i.e. knowledge of the tools, knowledge of yourself, knowledge of audience, writing is highly logical and analytical. Intuitive? It becomes that only after the training.

Smells? Any smell will either be appealing or disgusting, depends on the audience, so make it up. A dog's sense of smell is thousands of times better than ours and how much time do they spend sniffing shit and assholes, their sense of art so to speak.

As for your mind working like everybody else's. Hopefully not, we should all be relatively unique.