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User	sug90 | 2005-02-28 |
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Message	Well, lets see... I usally write about situations in my life and how they are making me feel. I have this purple journal that is like attatched to my hip because I never know when something will pop into my head. At night when I am rele tired and frustrated I write my best. I write short poems and a lot of times I juss start to write and the rest of the poem comes to me so I don’t revise alot unless i am submitting it o be published. I don’t have a usual style but I guess thats ok... I am trying to work on that. Well, I think thats it... ttyl. ALEX : )

User	WolfStar | 2005-02-25 |
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Message	I suppose it may be odd, saying it, but I just get this incredible urge to write when i see or think about something that inspires me (usually at night). I write primarily in free verse, but about anything that I feel strongly about. In my own way, I treasure everything I feel, whether it’s joy or depression (thought it’s usually the latter that calls for the pen), becaue without those overpowering feelings of elation or despair, I couldn’t write. Usually, the moment I’m done writing a first draft (usually 10 or 15 minutes) it’s a final. They come sort of few and far between, but when they come, they strike like lightning!

User	besodemuerte | 2005-02-08 |
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Message	i just write...

User	Paul | 2005-02-08 |
Subject	Style Of Writing
Message	I love to write in a journal. I write personally. Grammer is not my GOD. I write like I talk. I am interested in learning how other writers communicate with there readers. I love intelligent content. I love informative content. Paul

User	magnicat | 2005-01-16 |
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Message	often times lately i will see a phrase that just jumps out at me, and I’ll tuck it away in my mind for use later. that’s how I wrote "I Shall Dress You In Mourning." the poem actually has nothing to do with the original meaning of the phrase, but it sure got the creative juices flowing!

User	| 2005-01-16 |
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Message	I can write a poem in a minute when inspiration strikes. my best ones have always been the ones that didn’t take me a long time to write them. minimalistic free verse would be my style. but it happens that my poems get long and longer. lately I’m experimenting with different formats, parentheses and italics. and I like it. so you will see a lot of my poems in that style for a longer while now. I don’t have a certain time or fixed setting in which I write best. it just happens. I have written poems in my lectures at university, I went up 7 times a night just to get pen and paper and I have written them while commenting on other people’s works. I can write whenever and wherever. I don’t mind. call me an egoist but my main subject is me. I usually write about myself and my feelings. only from time to time I write apersonal poems. which means that they’re completely just a product of my vivid imagination. but I like to write about alienation and broken/dysfunctional relationships. now guess which refers more to me. :)

User	Sandburg | 2005-01-11 |
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Message	Hmmmm. Almost anything could trigger a poem. Maybe a song, a movie, a piece of graphic art. Nature is good, getting out into it. I had a deer jump in front of me on a jog once and came home and wrote a poem called Bounding comparing my running to the deer. Some stuff pops out in less than ten minutes, although I usually want to revise. I try to let those pieces flow out and fix them later. Sometimes I’ll get pieces of ideas in my head and they’ll work for days. Those kind of slow bake poems usually wake me up at three am and I have to get up and write them down. Right now I feel like crap because I’ve been awake since 2:30 this morning. Cheerzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Dave

User	Apocalyptica | 2005-01-10 |
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Message	It’s like 2 AM here in San Antonio, I’m dead tired, but I’m going to attempt to contribute to this thread. Most of the time I write about either my personal experiences, or my friends’ personal experiences. I’ve recently tried to broaden my horizons by writing based on no one in particular, though. That way I can use my imagination more, and hopefully improve my skills. Hmm... As for the main subjects of my poems, they are all basically different. I don’t think I’ve ever written on the same thing twice...But they are almost all based or inspired by reality. That is my style; being realistic, brunt, in-your-face, to-the-point, brutal honesty. I don’t really follow a certain format, I’ve actually never gotten to know the certain types of structure (like Sonnets, Ballads, etc.) and all that. Most of my works are four lines per stanza, though. I write about how I see life, and how I view the world as it is. I find it much more easier to write about reality than fiction. Usually my pieces can be taken either way, however, as a lot of them have two different ways of looking at them. Like Amazing Disgrace (sorry if it seems like I’m advertising, that is not the intent), for example: It is basically a poem about redemption, about no matter how far you’ve fallen, how big of a hole you have dug yourself, there is always time to make things right. The actual story, though, is about the devil realizing how much shit he has caused and feeling remorse for it, so he leaves Hell and reclaims his former spot in Heaven as one of God’s angels. When I showed this work to a friend, they took it for face value. She thought it was about Satan and all that, and misinterpreted it as a Gothic-style poem. I just wanted to use this example to show how I try to write an interesting work with fictional underlyings, but all of them are based on or inspired by reality. I write the best at night, especially in the very early morning hours. I like to sit alone in my room with a coffee and cigarette while I type away at my laptop. When I’m not at home, I like to just sit outside somewhere quiet with nice scenery and jot things down in my notebook. I get inspiration from lots of different things, even the most irrelevant things you can imagine. One night, I was standing outside a bar and saw a bunch of broken bottles all over the ground. I thought it looked like some kind of modern art, and it inspired me to write a poem about it. The way I write...Usually I’ll just jot down a bunch of lines in my notebook over the course of the day, and when I get home I put them all together. Sometimes I can just sit down and crank out a poem or song within 10 minutes; other times it takes me a couple of weeks to a month to make something good, with revisions and all that. I’d say my best works were written in the course of a week. I guess it depends on how inspired and creative I’m feeling at the time, though.

User	Juliets_dagger | 2005-01-09 |
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Message	My writing is usually very diverse as far as inspiration goes. I seem to have a knack for pulling something out of nothing. I don’t always write from my own perspective. I think it’s important to mix it up a bit. As far as when do I write the best, usually at night. But inspiration doesn’t always come expected. I find it a lot easier to type things out on the computer since I think a lot faster than I can write by hand. Time varies for me. Sometimes I can complete a piece in about five to ten minutes. Other times I’ll write a little bit of something and have to save it and finish it later. Often the process goes on and on for me. There a some pieces I’ve started that I doubt I’ll ever finish. Anyhoo..much love.

User	Jess | 2005-01-08 |
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Message	I have always written down my thoughts and played with stories and poetry. Mornings is the best time for me. Trying at the moment to find my way with different situations and past and present dialogue. I do know I need lots of practise!! I have not really got to grips with stanzas and things and feel have to write as I feel? Before this last year no one had read what I had written except for the odd short story I sent off for a magazine, which have always been sent back, so it’s different other people reading my stuff and a first!! Still finding my way with subjects for poetry and short stories but been writing a lot on various message boards and gaining knowledge on all sorts of topics from history to current world events. Would not have done that so quickly without the internet!!

User	mae | 2005-01-08 |
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Message	Well, let’s see, I’ve written lots of love poems, I’ve written about a tree, a plumbing leak, creation, my grandchildren, and I’ve imagined a young man’s thoughts. Plus, there are those stories I tell in poetry. I guess I’ll write about just about anything. I don’t think I have a usual "subject" and as for writing about something different than my usual - well, I think I’ve shown that I write about everything, so there really is no "usual." I write mostly at night or the early morning hours (right now it’s 4:50 a.m.) on the computer. I don’t require a lot of inspiration. Occasionally, I’ll be inspired to write on a certain subject, and then it usually turns out really well. But one just can’t always wait for inspiration, now can one? I have many "wip"s - works in progress - so I don’t necessarily "crank them out" I usually write longer - some very long - pieces. mae

User	eener | 2005-01-07 |
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Message	I usually write about my life and my experiences, althought I’ve written at least one piece concerning the thoughts of another, and I’ve written a couple that don’t mention any particular person at all. The main subject varies for me, I try never to write about exactly the same thing twice. I usually write in rhyme, although the rhyme scheme differs. Four lined stanzas are very common with me, although I’ve dabbled in longer and shorter stanzas, but I usually like my stanzas uniform in length. I can write in free verse, but I tend to make my pieces have some kind of pattern or regulation. I write about whatever strikes me whenever it strikes me. I always try to write about different things, to see if I can formulate opinions and thoughts upon all kinds of things instead of dwelling upon one subject. And if I do choose to dwell, then I usually write about all the different aspects of what I choose to dwell upon. I would have to say that both during the late afternoon and the late, late evening are when I feel I can think/write my best. I write best when laying on the floor or typing on the computer. The poem is write will most likely have the same tone/mood as the music of which I am listening to at the moment, since I tend to take on the mood of the music I listen to. I usually always have some music playing when I write. I’ve never successfully written a piece outside, but I find staring out the window very helpful sometimes. I have been known to come up with lovely rhyming bits in less than 5-10 minutes. But some pieces take a couple of hours to perfect. I’m not too big on revisions, since some pieces highly reflect my feelings at the time I wrote them, and to revise would be to revise those feelings, which doesn’t interest me. I think revising some pieces would take away the initial meanings of and feelings behind them. I write longer pieces mostly, although some pieces don’t need to be long to get their message across.