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What got you started writing? I know this has probably been done before.
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No idea. I just always did.
I grew up reading a lot of poetry, especially Banjo Paterson -- I know I was writing ballads when I was 9 or so, so I'd imagine there were attempts before that
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Poetry had always been around, at home, mostly with rollicking good rhythms, Romantic or Victorian, and school also did this-- we ''did'' several Shakespeare plays, in the short time I was at proper school, and you would have to learn various speeches by heart. To that was added a couple of tales from Chaucer, all meter, meter,meter. Later, between 15-18, I studied French, Latin and English verse, and I think in that time, I started, and can still remember fragments. My brother took to calling me Shelley, and perhaps with good reason. I think I was more interested in being a great play-wright--and how! But the world was spared.....
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I started writing short stories and reading a lot (mostly Stephen King and Jane Austen) then in the 5th grade we had to create a folder with different forms of poetry and I stuck with it. I started getting away from writing stories and reading novels into strictly writing and reading poetry. Now I'm going back into stories, but poetry is still my passion.
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I never thought of myself as someone who wrote. I lived in a crappy roommate situation. I have a poem about it, but in short, there were a number of addicts (heroin, crystal), a crazy dominatrix, a guy who lived in the garage knocking up multiple women, Mormons, pageant queens, a whole mix of crazy people. One of the roommates was a writer. He showed me some poetry he'd written, and turned me on to a lot of poetry. Something clicked. I read, and, read poetry that was nothing I'd been exposed to in school. I started writing, mostly badly, but enjoyed it and kept at it. I also have recently started writing fiction.
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Have you posted any of your fiction on here yet?
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A couple old short stories (first attempts actually). I'm rewriting Ripples as a novel so I'd probably rather post that than go further with that one. I co uld put chapter one of that here. I also have another short story I wrote for a prompt.
I'll repost the novel chapter.
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I started writing at a young age but i was rapping before i was writing poetry.
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I've just started really, in the last few days.
I used to read religiously, I don't so much anymore.
I've been at university for the last 7 years and have largely avoided writing anything (maybe 5 or so essays in that time) as I studied design. too busy making pretty pictures.
I recently read a beautiful Buddhist poem called "guide to the Bodhisattva's way of life" which inspired me in a fairly significant way (hence the subject matter of the things I've written so far). I guess that was what got me interested.
My knowledge of poetry is minute, something I have to remedy for sure.
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And if something happens that you can't remedy, Still why worry?
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the need for sex, i started with the love poetry thing and it seemed to work; even though me love poetry was shite
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women drop panties quickly for a man who can write poetry ;D it has been proven
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(12-05-2012, 01:00 PM)Arriedo Wrote: women drop panties quickly for a man who can write poetry ;D it has been proven
Then you woke up
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(12-05-2012, 01:19 PM)arbil_poieo Wrote: (12-05-2012, 01:00 PM)Arriedo Wrote: women drop panties quickly for a man who can write poetry ;D it has been proven
Then you woke up
right next to a bad bitch with no panties on
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i've yet had the need for a women to write me poetry in order for my trollies to fall down. they only need look at me for that to happen
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EXACTLY BILLY!
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Randomly wrote something to impress a girl (total cliche, I know) and found out I have some talent to work with and a lot of poems later, here I am...
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It started out as a love for reading. Then, the love evolved into a desire to create. After that, the desire mutated into a compulsion to write more, write better, and write even more still. It's like an addiction I can't get rid of.
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(01-03-2013, 12:19 PM)brandontoh Wrote: It started out as a love for reading. Then, the love evolved into a desire to create. After that, the desire mutated into a compulsion to write more, write better, and write even more still. It's like an addiction I can't get rid of.
Big thumbs up. I think that describes it pretty damn well.
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(01-04-2013, 06:57 AM)Leanne Wrote: (01-03-2013, 12:19 PM)brandontoh Wrote: It started out as a love for reading. Then, the love evolved into a desire to create. After that, the desire mutated into a compulsion to write more, write better, and write even more still. It's like an addiction I can't get rid of.
Big thumbs up. I think that describes it pretty damn well.
Yeah, Brandon's comment could almost be the tagline for a writing site. That's the way it tends to go: read, create, compulsion, improve.
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I don't know if you remember the days when you could not even read. I do.I went down to the shops of my village, and there were big letters (ads everywhere). I looked at them quite fascinated, knowing they must have meant somethin important. But just not yet to me.
Once I am a grown-up, I said to myself, I am gonna know all this shit, ha!
Well, yeah, eventually I did.
And was not too amused about it.
So I learned German by the letter. (and French and Russian too, bc of my parents).
Year by year, but anyway.
My first poem I ever wrote was pure pornography, meant to impress a sexy lady of 15? Ok, she was impressed.
Ok, that's how this mess all started
and I am sceptical, if it ever will come to a soft end.
Well, if not, I will take the rough end too.
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