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What got you writing online?
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10-14-2012, 08:29 AM
(10-14-2012, 02:52 AM)TwistedAngel Wrote: but for some reason i carried on writing stuff an thought well wots the point of writing all this stuff if no ones gonna read it ?Good point -- it's no fun being miserable if you can't drag others down with you 
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10-14-2012, 08:35 AM
I hadn't written poetry since leaving high school. Six years ago I broke my ankle (crawling drunk over a fence while trying to fetch another bottle of champagne) and walked a lot while I was recuperating. Something about the rhythm of walking - the actual rhythm of the body - made me a walking dreamer, I think - words started coming and I'd write them down when I got home.
I joined an online poetry site (AP) after searching 'online poetry' in 2007. In 2008/2009 I did an online diploma course in Creative Writing and attended some Poetry Workshops, started reading my work at open mics. - writing a poem a day, to make up for all those years in between! MA in Creative Writing 2011. Still writing too much and not spending enough time reading critically. I'm now editing an online poem-a-day blog - but before you send me your poems, I don't get to choose what goes up! I'm given the poems by the Editor-In-Chief. Without poetry being accessible to me online in 2007 I would not be a poet now. I lived in a town of 50 houses, maybe 200 people - no other poets there, but some very dedicated and idiosyncratic beer-drinkers. Since poetry took over my life has changed in every detail. I'm single and broke, living in another country. The jury's still out on whether it's for the good or not! 
10-14-2012, 08:56 AM
That is a story -- but I was completely mesmerised right at the beginning -- is fence-crawling an Antipodean thing?
10-14-2012, 09:08 AM
(10-14-2012, 08:56 AM)abu nuwas Wrote: is fence-crawling an Antipodean thing?erm... might be  ... thanks to a barbed wire fence, I have a lovely scar on my right index finger where I tore enough skin off it to see right through to the bone. It was for a good cause though... stealing the neighbour's flowers for Mother's Day.
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10-14-2012, 09:45 AM
Pub Crawling is the Antipodean thing, but fence crawling is allowed when stealing flowers for Mum or getting more champagne!
Oh what a wicket web we weave!
 
10-14-2012, 09:55 AM
erm i wos sent to see a anger therapist by the courts..along with a sucky tag
anyways he suggested i write down me feelings an have no idea why i wrote them in a kinda rap style..witch is even wierder cos am not a rap fan i love me metal but i guess raps easier to write init anyways the upside is if i ever get writers block i just go out do somthing really stoopid then write about it
10-14-2012, 09:59 AM
(10-14-2012, 08:35 AM)just mercedes Wrote: I hadn't written poetry since leaving high school. Six years ago I broke my ankle (crawling drunk over a fence while trying to fetch another bottle of champagne) and walked a lot while I was recuperating. Something about the rhythm of walking - the actual rhythm of the body - made me a walking dreamer, I think - words started coming and I'd write them down when I got home.beer drinking was a big part of my life along with the idiosyncratics of that world. it was when i stopped boozing i found an interest in poetry. though i never wrote any well not on line anyway. i did the odd love poem and they were really odd if i'm honest i've always been creative so once i found online poetry sites it was just a matter of searching for a good one, it was hard because i had no idea what a good poetry site was. however, my endeavours at poetry were not as good as i was expecting but, and this is a big but. i improved. i think i only recently, the last couple of years really got into poetry online. mainly because of this site. started by a dare of sorts. I haven't looked back 
10-15-2012, 09:41 AM
I hit my midlife crisis, bought the motor bike and electric guitar. Then got nostalgic and posted a couple of poems on Facebook for my friends as a look back at our youth. I received the feedback you would expect from friends and decided to look online, I took out names re-did the poems and posted them. That was two months ago. I joined one site and genuinely wanted to improve and be inspired by other people’s poems, I posted three of my FB poems and had smoke blown up my arse by all comments and this was the same for all threads. So I looked for pastures new and stumbled across the Pig Pen and how refreshing that was to find a site that offers support and helps you improve. Poetry is not something I will share readily so it’s great to have others review and critique with no fee, except the same by return. Balanced feedback is an art form that starts with an opinion. So as you can see my poetry still has a long way go, and I love the smell of this Pig Pen.
10-15-2012, 05:22 PM
(10-15-2012, 09:41 AM)TimeOnMyHands Wrote: I love the smell of this Pig Pen.  that'll do, pig, that'll do...Great attitude, TOMH, I can tell we're going to get along just fine.
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10-15-2012, 06:06 PM
yeah, we like pigs that give feedback
i think it's easier to write on the pc than on paper so that was one of the reasons i started writing poetry, though not the main one.
10-17-2012, 04:49 PM
here's a sort of offshoot of the main question, what keeps you writing online?
i'm posting this because i feel i should be writing a bit of poetry and instead, i'm trying to find anything but poetry to do. this will sound silly, but sometimes i feel guilty for not writing more than i do. at other times i see the sites a bit slack and feel the need to try and jiggle it up a bit i shall do some by tomorrow
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