| User | Survivor_Dean | | Topic | Writing style(poetry | | Message | When you start on a poem do you already know how its going to end? Or do you just let it flow out? I tend to do the latter then when I read them later it seems strange because I actually don’t remember writing some of the stuff and I am a little suprised at the ending of some of them, I was just curious, thanks, Dean |
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| User | FinalConflict | 2008-04-25 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | I don’t really write poetry, but I write songs. And 2 of about 50 songs I’ve started on the first line. For me it’s generally the chorus or a line before the chorus.
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| User | caster | 2007-11-08 | | | Subject | me | | Message | i usually have a line, or several lines floating around my mind and start from there. sometimes ill write down the lines i had in mind and end up throwing them away and writing something completely different. sometimes ill hear a song and it inspires me to want to write, only to try and write and nothing comes. |
| User | Jazzy | 2007-05-14 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | I usually haven’t any idea how its going to end up. Start with one line, and continues on until I run out of something to write about. Generally it just sort of pours from the tips of my fingers, unless I have writers block. xD Also, I always start with some sort of picture in my mind, and my main goal is to describe it in the best way I can. Heh, I don’t know I’ve ever actually reached that goal though. |
| User | geherald | 2007-05-06 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | actually virtually all of my poems have started out as one-liners and went from there... i’ll start with the one line i have and try to write around it... sometimes i keep the line, sometimes it gets changed, but thats what i do... |
| User | UnderINK | 2007-04-04 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | It depends. Sometimes I know exactly -what- I want to write about, but not where I’m going to start or end. Sometimes I know where I want it to end, but it usually doesn’t go that way. Sometimes it’s better than I expected. Usually I have a bunch of words in my head and a subject and a general direction, but at times through a poem all of those might change. I might not use the words, I might change the subject, or decide on a different direction to take it. Part of the reason poetry is so invigorating to write is the fact that you usually don’t know where it will take you. . . In fact, in rereading it, it can tell you more things about how you feel than you realized from the start. |
| User | tZar | 2007-03-26 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | I tend to go from an idea, question or situation. Then I start thinking of what kind of words describe this, the connotations and so forth. In other words I know Where I am going, and it starts out as notes on a piece of paper.
Then I decide on a form that can add to what I am getting at. I find this very importent. You can think of it this way: if you go to a resturant and they serve a really nice meal in a bucket, you proberly would mind. The way a meal is served is part of how it tastes and makes you think of the meal. Same goes in writing.
As opposed to others who have commented here, I think of writing as an interlectual challange, and how I say things and how they are presented, adds extra layers to the text.
Just writing what ever comes to mind, might be a starting point, but hardly anything written in that mannor have real quality to it. When some succeed in that approch it is most likely because they are so used to writing (I am not talking a 17 year old kid who have written since he was 5!) that they have incorperated a style into they way of expressing themselves. And it will proberly demand some revising anyway.
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| User | DavidHirt | 2007-03-24 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | Writing is very much of the mind. It isn’t the only thing, true, but neither is emotion. What you feel comes intrinsicly from what you think of the world... what you think about life. It is also physical. A tall fat person is going to experience life much differently and think and feel about it differently than a short skinny person. Writing from the heart doesn’t mean pour your emtions on the page... it means you incorporate your entire being into the poem... physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional.
As too your question Dean, I used to start at the begining and then the ends of my poems were never as good as I wanted them to be. So I started writing the ends first, to keep a good end. I already knew how to write beginnings. After I felt comfortable with ending a poem, I started working on the inside. Take time in different poems for different parts until you become comfortable with the poem as a whole and can trust your skills to write what you want to write when and where you want to write it, but working on sections is the way to accomplish that. You have your whole life to be a poet. You’re going to write things you will come back too down the road and gag at, but they are important steps to getting to where you will go. It’s all growth. |
| User | pyrosweetheart | 2007-03-22 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | I just write. Writing is from the heart and is not a mind thing. A wise person taught me to write from heart. Just listen to what your heart tells you. You cannot go wrong there |
| User | Gbaby36 | 2006-12-25 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | I usualy just write whatever comes out. Then I go back and edit it and rearange it later. |
| User | Azuire | 2006-12-06 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | I always write the ending first, and work my way backwards until the start (which could be anywhere). Then it’s all rearranged. Weeeird stuff happens when you write it that way, but it makes for fun stuff to read, especially when you try and figure out your meaning.
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| User | misty_of_moon | 2006-08-30 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | it varies with me...sometimes i have a beginnig and the end is only know when the last word is written....other times i write with no ideas or purpose and a great poem manifests...there are times when i know exactly what i want to write during thise it either goes exactly as i envisioned or te poem developes a mind of it’s own. then there are the times when i have an end and have to work backwards for a start and a body. my mental process is complicated.
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| User | Ligeia83 | 2006-08-30 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | usually I just let it flow out...other times I have in my mind the end of it already...but yeah, most times it’s just stuff that comes out from my mind to paper.. |
| User | joeyalphabet | 2006-08-30 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | Most times I get an idea and write from that. It’s very rare for me that I have any idea where I’m going with something, either poems or stories. The only time I write with a definite idea where I’m going or want to go is when I write essays. |
| User | eowyn | 2006-08-18 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | it depends. lately ive just been getting snatches of god stuff, and i worry about ordering it later. the end result isnt too bad either.
yeah, when you read back, some of your stuff can eem confusing, especially when you write something wrong and cant figure out what it was you meant. |
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