03-01-2012, 11:15 PM
- Use blank unlined paper with pencil: Lines on your page are forced conformity, colours distract and ink has permanence. All three disrupt the flow of creativity.
- Conditioning: Set your mood by daydreaming your poem, imagine everything and explore any possible twists and scenario's. Use music, find a song you like with a similar theme, listen to the song over and over until you feel you are there experiencing it and then start writing.
- Over-tiredness, I am finding that thinking is clearer the longer I am awake, I like to be awake at least 24 hours before writing, jacked up on coffee of course, but for some, alcohol might be easier.
- Conditioning: Set your mood by daydreaming your poem, imagine everything and explore any possible twists and scenario's. Use music, find a song you like with a similar theme, listen to the song over and over until you feel you are there experiencing it and then start writing.
- Over-tiredness, I am finding that thinking is clearer the longer I am awake, I like to be awake at least 24 hours before writing, jacked up on coffee of course, but for some, alcohol might be easier.