Who writes poems ever day?

[milo]

It is hard to write a poem everyday. Theres just so much going on.

The reason I keep flogging this wound isn't because I am a masochist but rather it leads off a conversation I was having with someone else the other day and I do love being the devil's advocate.

I am pretty lazy, especially as it comes to writing, and settling yourself in and writing can be hard. It is easy if you are inspired, but inspiration comes along at its own, plodding unpredictable pace. I can go months without writing anything and just use the excuse "I am not feeling inspired or creative, but it is a self feeding cycle: the less I write, the less I feel like writing. I tested my theory out and made myself write 4 poems a day for a couple weeks. After that, I had lines of poetry running through my head almost constantly.

I am betting that if you worked in a Chinese "poem sweat shop" somewhere and were required to work 12 hours a day writing poems with a quota of a minimum of 12 sonnets a day or you wouldn't eat - - - you would write.