What got you writing online?

[billy]

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!

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