Writing Conditions

[WickedEve]

Where do you write and what kind of conditions must you write under? Do you write at work where it may be stressful, sneaking a word or two down on paper before you're caught? Or perhaps, like me, you have screaming children in the background. Or maybe you're a lucky bastard who writes in a tranquil garden. Damn you!
Anyway, I want to know where you write and how it effects your poetry.

 

[Maria2394]

hello Wicked Eve

okay, I'm ( one of) the ones that has a tranquil garden, I confess... but I love being home alone, early morning especially, from about 5:30 to 10 or 11 is my favorite time to write. Before the stress of the day ...

Quiet, no TV, no music, just me and my cats, ( they sit on the desk and watch me) yeah, thats me, catwoman and when its warm, in the garden with a notebook

Maria

 

[Cordelia]

Time alone? What's that?

I sneak in writing between laundry and dishes. On the backs of financial statements while I'm pouring myself tea at work. At the stoplight in the car. Between vacuuming and dusting. In the margins of "Ulysses." On blank deposit slips waiting in line at the bank. In the doctor's waiting room. On the pizza box while watching the kids play chess. At 3am when insomnia strikes. Dictating poems to my sons in the car after school.

You get the idea.

Those precious times I have to myself are when I consolidate these fragments. Sometimes they make poems.



Cordelia

 

[SeattleRain]

After my lover falls asleep
I sneak to the computer
Type in the dark
With a blue glow on my shoulders
Shhhhhh
He is in my fingers anyway.... he just doesn't know it
shhhh

 

[Liar]

At the office
between coffee
and lunch,

when it looks
like deep thought
rendered in the presence
of a Gartner polling report
and an omnipresent
nagging deadline,

a muse whispers
soft seduction
into my ear
and my heart
and not my brain
is at my fingertips.

#Liar

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Always sitting at the computer, at school, at work, mostly in my room. Any time of day or night -- especially at night -- under any conditions -- tv, music, silence, desk may be a mess or not, doesn't matter. All I want is to be alone. I can't write with an audience.

I think the only way it affects my poetry is that it makes it scarcer. I wish I could just grab a notebook and do it anywhere...

 

[WickedEve]

hello Wicked Eve

okay, I'm ( one of) the ones that has a tranquil garden, I confess... but I love being home alone, early morning especially, from about 5:30 to 10 or 11 is my favorite time to write. Before the stress of the day ...

Quiet, no TV, no music, just me and my cats, ( they sit on the desk and watch me) yeah, thats me, catwoman and when its warm, in the garden with a notebook

Maria

I'm sending you weeds, Maria. lol

 

[Angeline]

I almost always write

at my laptop, could be anywhere (but usually sitting cross-legged on my bed, trying to hide from my kids). Most of my poems get interrupted many times over as I'm trying to write, but years of working in a publishing house with insane deadlines have rendered me able to tune out and write under really bad conditions.

 

[WickedEve]

Cordelia, a pizza box? I wrote "mercury" on a napkin but a pizza box has that beat. lol But I understand having to find somewhere to quickly jot down your words.
I walk a couple of miles a day while the kids are in school, and many times a poem comes to me. So I have to repeat it over and over until I can get home and write it down.

"I can't write with an audience." Lauren, if you were forced to, I have a feeling you'd still write beautifully.

Liar and S.Rain, go submit your poems.

 

[WickedEve]

Re: I almost always write

at my laptop, could be anywhere (but usually sitting cross-legged on my bed, trying to hide from my kids). Most of my poems get interrupted many times over as I'm trying to write, but years of working in a publishing house with insane deadlines have rendered me able to tune out and write under really bad conditions.

We have something in common... except the whole publishing house thing. lol

 

[Angeline]

Cordelia, a pizza box? I wrote "mercury" on a napkin but a pizza box has that beat. lol But I understand having to find somewhere to quickly jot down your words.
I walk a couple of miles a day while the kids are in school, and many times a poem comes to me. So I have to repeat it over and over until I can get home and write it down.

"I can't write with an audience." Lauren, if you were forced to, I have a feeling you'd still write beautifully.

Liar and S.Rain, go submit your poems.

i left you a poem in the heart challenge thingy, woman.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Lauren, if you were forced to, I have a feeling you'd still write beautifully.

If I were forced to do what?

 

[Angeline]

Re: Re: I almost always write

We have something in common... except the whole publishing house thing. lol

just think of it as more demanding children, only with grown-up voices, lol.

 

[WickedEve]

If I were forced to do what?

Uhh... forced to sit in jello.

 

[Liar]

Uhh... forced to sit in jello.

Don't say things like that. I'm not supposed to have that in my mind when I'm at the office.

 

[The_Fool]

Used to be I wrote my best stuff in bars for picking up chicks. Next best place was on bathroom stalls, where I did most of my thinking. Now I write at any convenient keyboard that gives me access to the web. That is assuming I write anymore....

 

[The_Fool]

I'm sending you weeds, Maria. lol

I think there is a tongue in cheek poem in here somewhere...



Within ourselves
is a serene place,
a quiet garden,
filled with a
soothing sense of self.

Within this place
this space
we find our center
our point of perspective
our creative urge.

Some are filled
with forest silence
Others empty
but for sounds of seas.
All are meant to please.

Lately mine has been overtaken
with weeds and other chaos,
Rusted car parts, empty whiskey bottles.
Surrounded by the highway.
Dilapidated decadent dissonance.


Sorry Eve, you got the spontaneous brain fart this time....

Foolish Fool

EDITED...I may spontaneously combust if I don't start writing better....

 

[WickedEve]

Don't say things like that. I'm not supposed to have that in my mind when I'm at the office.

How about Lauren smearing jello between her thighs? Should you be thinking about that? lol


sorry, L.

 

[The_Fool]

How about Lauren smearing jello between her thighs? Should you be thinking about that? lol


sorry, L.

I dunno, I see Lauren more as a honey kind of girl...

 

[Linbido]

please somebody turn out the light
the sun makes it feel less allright
with my laptop in bed
I hear words in my head
when I should had been sleeping, at night

 

[WickedEve]

I think there is a tongue in cheek poem in here somewhere...



Within ourselves
is a serene place,
a quiet garden,
filled with a
soothing sense of self.

Within this place
this space
we find our center
our point of perspective
our creative urge.

Some are filled
with forest silence
Others empty
but for sounds of seas.
All are meant to please.

Lately mine has been overtaken
with weeds and other chaos,
Rusted car parts, empty whiskey bottles.
Surrounded by the highway.
Dilapidated decadent dissonance.


Sorry Eve, you got the spontaneous brain fart this time....

Foolish Fool

EDITED...I may spontaneously combust if I don't start writing better....

Speaking of spontaneous, I have this new thing happening. It's called spontaneous masturbation. It just happens! I'm a bit cautious of my fingers now, especially when I'm at the DMV or church or somewhere like that. I'll give you details on it some time.

Okay, submit that fart, Fool. I don't think it'll stink up the new poems list at all.

 

[Linbido]

Speaking of spontaneous, I have this new thing happening. It's called spontaneous masturbation. It just happens! I'm a bit cautious of my fingers now, especially when I'm at the DMV or church or somewhere like that. I'll give you details on it some time.

It's thinking about all that jello. Let's blame the jello.

What's this about Lauren and thighs? Do they really need jello to cause said effect? I think not.

 

[WickedEve]

It's thinking about all that jello. Let's blame the jello.

What's this about Lauren and thighs? Do they really need jello to cause said effect? I think not.

I'm hungry now. I want jello. Not jello in a mold. That's just creepy. Though... I wonder if I can get an x-rated jello mold. Ohhh, a squiggly lime penis.


I am not weird... just horny. But what else is new?

 

[annaswirls]

Speaking of spontaneous, I have this new thing happening. It's called spontaneous masturbation. It just happens! I'm a bit cautious of my fingers now, especially when I'm at the DMV or church or somewhere like that. I'll give you details on it some time.

oh Eve I have the same problem. Have to wear a padded bra and a camisole in order to keep my hands off my tits in Target or wherever

do they make chastity belts for your own self?

I want details now.

Damn
and jello

Jesus you ladies get me all fired up and it is only 7:00

jello.... yum..... I'll take it but am more of a creamy frosting kind of girl

 

[annaswirls]

I'm hungry now. I want jello. Not jello in a mold. That's just creepy. Though... I wonder if I can get an x-rated jello mold. Ohhh, a squiggly lime penis.


I am not weird... just horny. But what else is new?

of course they make them
good for ice cubes too

when is your birthday?