The exercise:
Write a four line poem about: the way you write.
Kat and I went (five pin) bowling tonight for the first time in a very long time. I bowled regularly growing up but recently I've only gone once or twice a year at most.
Anyway, I did much better than I was expecting. It was the sort of night that could tempt me to get back into it.
Not sure that's a good thing.
Mine:
Bang head against wall,
Confront blank pages with fear;
Just keep repeating
Until inspiration appears.
I go bowling pretty infrequently as well, and I always find that the presence of beer at those events just doesn't help :)
ReplyDeleteAnd it's a good thing so long as it provides you with writing inspiration!
I like today's poem, it's good instruction for writing!
The way you write
Engraved deep in the page,
Are letters: survivors of a fight,
They battered, bruised and broken,
But that's just the way you write.
iPad in front of me
ReplyDeleteI wait for the words to strike
different styles offer themselves to me
which will it be tonight?
The Way I Write
ReplyDeleteAt practice words just appear,
I am not in control.
As I walk my mind writes,
Every step extends the prose.
Marc - As Herbert says, fear is the little death.
Greg - It sounds painful.
WB - Good for you.
Now I have to run and go buck some trees up, unfortunately when the chain saw is screaming I am concentrating on the job and cannot allow my mind to wander.
@Marc - Ouch. With over three years of consecutive writing, I imagine you have had your share of goose eggs. What an accomplishment to always have overcome that fear. For 1329 days an inspired work has appeared without fail.
ReplyDelete@ Greg - I think we come from the same school of thought,the words do seem to take a good beating before they make the page. BTW I really appreciate the research you do before writing. I missed it at first, being new and all but after the chess-boxing thing, I have given your little details a lot more attention.
@ WB - perfect, I wish I had thought of it.
@ IB - Darlin' we want to see ya back tomorrow so do what ya gotta do, carefully. I really liked your poem, glad im not the only one walking around lost in thought.
It starts with just a thought, a mere fantasy.
Then soon a world takes shape.
With just a vague idea of what's to be,
I start to write. My own escape.
Marc - A variant of (what I always thought was Heinlein's) Writing, Butt in chair.
ReplyDeleteGreg - So Marc's the Masocist and you are the Sadist? ;)
Writebite - We're in the same 'verse
IB - So it's all about the *environment*?
The dial goes back and forth and to and fro.
Suddenly, there is a signal
and the radio in my head starts playing.
My fingers stab down, transcribing the ether.
Greg - I like the idea that only the survivors make it to the page.
ReplyDeleteWritebite - beautifully expressed :)
Iron Bess - I find that when I'm doing something that doesn't require my full concentration, that's when my best ideas arrive.
Agreed, though - chainsawing is not one of those things ;)
Krystin - some days, blessedly, inspiration arrives pretty quickly :)
Thank you for the kind words though.
Re: Greg - I'm not sure how much research he does before writing here. I think he just knows a ridiculous range of stuff :D
I like your approach to writing, by the way.
GZ - fantastic poem. I think that's one of my favorites from you so far.
really nice takes folks.
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The Way I write
ReplyDeleteImagination set free, romancing away the day.
Then trouble strikes and a tale appeares, To ruin my lovers day.
The words pour forth on to the page, I cannot stop this now.
Their herats cry, Please let us have a happy ever after, for now.
I definatley enjoyed everyones poems. Yesterday I got pulled in two directions, which really trhew me off so I never got to this prompt. At least I was e-mailing Charley R (aka Spook) and we've always got some role play going, so I count those as my daily writing (if I have to). :}
God Takes hold
ReplyDeleteI'm not smart enough
To write this Crap
Myself
Writebite - thanks for the link, I'll check it out as soon as I can.
ReplyDeleteElor - love that 'for now' at the end, as though they know you'll never truly leave them alone :)
David - haha, I've definitely had days like that :D