[Se] poetic urges

[whimsical]

Does anyone else get like this, I usually go a while where I will have no flow, no inspiration to write, and then there comes a period in time where I suddenly have the urge to write and to seek experiences which will help me develop my own ideas. It's like there is a message inside of my head that is dying to come out, but I don't know how to get it out, until I put it on paper.

Sometimes it comes on so quick that I just get in the state and I take 30 minutes by myself concentrating on words, and I can finish a quite decent piece. I write until I feel I have expressed what I have inside, and then go back to developing new ideas.

 

[Engler]

When I experience a significant internal change, such as an ideological transition, I immediately feel the need to express this change through poetry.

Generally speaking, the resulting poem shares many characteristics with the internal change.

Also, after I feel that my change has been sufficiently expressed, I no longer possess the extreme desire to write poetry.

 

[OrangeAppled]

I always think of things to write all of a sudden at inconvenient times (ie. while driving). It either ends up a lost idea, comes back to me later, or I repeat it over & over until I can get to some paper.

The middle of the night is a creative time for me too, but it's hard to do a lot because then you fall into this vampire schedule and cannot function well in the real world.

But yeah, it goes in cycles....there will be times in which i can think of nothing to write, and forcing it just produces crap (not like I'm all that brilliant to begin with ).

 

[Wiley45]

Does anyone else get like this, I usually go a while where I will have no flow, no inspiration to write, and then there comes a period in time where I suddenly have the urge to write and to seek experiences which will help me develop my own ideas.

This is exactly how it works for me. I have a dry spell and then a sudden tsunami of creativity.

I always think of things to write all of a sudden at inconvenient times (ie. while driving). It either ends up a lost idea, comes back to me later, or I repeat it over & over until I can get to some paper.

The middle of the night is a creative time for me too, but it's hard to do a lot because then you fall into this vampire schedule and cannot function well in the real world.

This is so true for me too! I try to keep a notepad by my bed to jot things down, and that helps me not fall into the "vampire schedule," as you call it. Sometimes, though, I still end up staying up all night writing when the urge strikes, much to my detriment the following morning...

 

[SpottingTrains]

This is so true for me too! I try to keep a notepad by my bed to jot things down, and that helps me not fall into the "vampire schedule," as you call it. Sometimes, though, I still end up staying up all night writing when the urge strikes, much to my detriment the following morning...

I literally have a notepad sitting on the floor beside my bed filled with random pieces of my writing and have the definitely had my fair share of baggy-eyed mornings due to 'tsunmai'-like fits of writing. Though in my opinion it is always worth it

 

[silverchris9]

Ah! Same as everyone. Especially the part about internal change:

When I experience a significant internal change, such as an ideological transition, I immediately feel the need to express this change through poetry.

Whenever I feel something happening in my "soul" (whatever that is) I write a poem on the crest of the wave, hoping that by taking down the language that comes into my head, perhaps I'll make a record, or an artifact of the change (and thereby of myself; I think I read a poem once that talked about how "I am in possession of the full record of my consciousness" or somthing like that). Of course, lately I have a conviction that I can affect my internal change by writing poems, as if somehow hearing the words allows me to feel in a different direction. It's interesting.

I don't notice dry spells and tsunamis, because I normally write through the dry spells, but I do notice periods of rapid growth in the quality of my poetry followed by gradual periods of what seems to be building up energy for the next revelation. Then I guess it is a tsunami, because I can't stop until I've sort of burned it off, either by writing or just by talking about it, whatever "it" is.

 

[Wiley45]

Though in my opinion it is always worth it

Agreed! Sacrificing sleep for writing is worth it, as long as it's not for weeks on end. Then I get a little burned out and crazy eyed.

I don't notice dry spells and tsunamis, because I normally write through the dry spells, but I do notice periods of rapid growth in the quality of my poetry followed by gradual periods of what seems to be building up energy for the next revelation. Then I guess it is a tsunami, because I can't stop until I've sort of burned it off, either by writing or just by talking about it, whatever "it" is.

Interesting. Sometimes I try to write through dry spells, but my writing is absolutely awful. Do you have any tricks to keep your mind/pen moving and get through writer's block?

 

[Sponge]

I get like this when I'm writing my stories or coming up with ideas. Suddenly it will all hit me, and I will write everything down as quickly as I can because the energy doesn't last long and is very infrequent.

Not over poetry though, poetry sucks

 

[souffle]

I have a basic idea for a poem, lots of ideas for random lines throughout the thing, which I proceed to write down, then try and organise it all into something that makes sense when I'm not in my 'flow' mood.

 

[aguanile]

Sometimes I just get sudden bursts of creative energy and I have to write. That's why most of my writing turns into poetry. I am not one for anything too lengthy.

 

[gloomy-optimist]

I tend to need to express myself creatively through writing when I get stressed or emotionally overwhelmed. I think it's a type of release or escapism in that case.

Visual art I do whenever I get inspired -- see a nice piece, get a new idea, etc.

 

[Bubbles]

I don't believe in writer's block, BUT I do believe in burst of inspiration. I get moments where I sit down and everything flows in its own poetic prose, and if it's autobiographical, chances are it'll be a poem. If it's more thought-oriented, it'll be prose. If I'm in the middle of a long-term project, I just pour it into there as best I can (because it can give the story wonderufl twists and turns and depth when I write while in that mood). I freely give up sleep for it. I just CAN'T sleep if I don't.

Sometimes the muse whispers, and other times, she's out to lunch. But when that happens, usually you have to plow through anyway.

 

[skawdebeast01]

lol, I just experienced this yesterday! I was sitting in one of my classes and then all of a sudden I just had this sudden urge to write....which is something that doesn't happen very often.

 

[aguanile]

Do you all show your work to other people? Or is it just for you?

It's the one thing that I feel is so personal. But at the same time feel so confident about it and would show it to anybody. It's the one thing I feel incapable of caring if it is rejected. For some reason, it's like, I don't care if you like it or not, it's part of me. It's honest. It's what I was feeling at that moment and it's neither right nor wrong.

 

[Queen Kat]

I'm not into poetry. At all. But I do write (thank you whimsical) a lot of stories, which are quite absurdistic, most of the times. Most people say I'm pretty good at it.

 

[whimsical]

correction, write

 

[Queen Kat]

O, thanks. I am SO stupid.

 

[whimsical]

LOL

 

[Bethedee]

Sometimes I'll have work to do and I'll be up late doing it (ex: essays due next day) but I'll put my entire schedule on hold because I get a marvelous idea. I usually am kind of weak to the urge and spend my time working on the idea. I write stories alot, and sometimes I write just a few pages about a character I make up on the spot, but I don't really like to write poetry at all. I always felt embarassed reading poetry later that I had written, so eventually I just learned to save myself and stop.

I like it when other people read what I've written. I feel hurt when I give it to them to read and they're too busy to complete it in a timely manner.

 

[Dwigie]

Sometimes I just get sudden bursts of creative energy and I have to write. That's why most of my writing turns into poetry. I am not one for anything too lengthy.

Same here, I'm no good at long stories.
I love to "write images" and short stories though.