Do you want to share where you are in your writing? Do you write for work or as a hobby? I enjoy writing poetry, reading poetry and would very much want to take a writing course. I have read some of my poetry a couple of times open-mic. It was a growing, inspiring moment.

I never liked to write for a living. But I cant escape writing. It's something I just have to do. I dont know why. Now I'm a writer-researcher at my dad's consulting company, and I'm also a contributor at one of the local business magazines here. Sometimes I want to stop writing but it seems I cant.

I write poetry when im P1ssed and it scares me the shivers it sends down ppls neck

Writing?......Poetry?

When I was younger I was consumed by writing, pen to paper, the Art of creating the word picture in such a manner, so as to allow the reader to recreate the intended images and feelings or emotions in the imagination.

Having been formally schooled in Art and Literature, I had various authors shoved in my face for their popularity or status in history. I chose rather to accept an author strictly on the sheer "entertainment" value over the subject matter; a practice considered juvenile and immature by Literature officianados.

I was captivated by the Classic Authors such as Jack London, Charles Dickens, Sheila Burford, Margaret Saunders, Wilson Rawls, Fred Gipson, Mark Twain, as well as some of the more well-known and modern writers like Isaac Asimov, Paul Preuss, Ken Follet, Arthur C. Clarke. I found the writings of philosophers and thoerists to be dry and lacking.

As Far as poetry....I doubt there isnt at least some point in a young persons life, when poetry doesnt enter the psyche....something within causing us to attempt to scribble on a piece of paper words meant to express the fury and confusion of emotions being felt within. I, myself had a long affair with poetry...writing hundreds of rhymed lines...expressing everything from lovestruck youth to rage of misunderstood experiences in my life; The vast majority of those works having been lost over time.

Writing...comes to me much easier in "Prose".....at times a situation, a sound, a song, a smell, the feeling of a certain material causes a return to strong emotion and a want, a desire, possibly even a need to sit, no longer pen in hand but hands on keys typing, and staring at a screen in a dimly lit room, late hours into the night, a nearly empty wine bottle perched nearby while attempting to express subtle, and yet overwhelming feelings and emotions to an audience never seen...rarely heard and seldom wholly known.

The return to passion is a short journey, requiring one to simply look within.

Well express Paul. In my late years I am finding poetry to be quite entertaining and therapeutic as well. I like to write when I' alone, at work or whenever the muse shows up. I am so glad that I've discovered this part of me as I am having fun playing with words on paper or in my head. You would think that I carry lots of makeup in my bag, but no I carry pens, pencils, journals, dictionary, rhyming dictionary too (I'm thinking of carrying a thesaurus too).

I just venture into the arena of open-mic. I thought I wasn't going to be able to do it; but the expressing of the words to an audience gave me more good feelings after performing my poems, sort of speak.

When I was a child I remember reading "Green Eggs and Ham", the thought of rhyming like that stayed with me for a awhile, lost it along the way, however, it followed me like a dark shadow in the night as I got older.

I'm a poet and I didn't
even know it.
Come pass by my port
and see poems of all sorts.

Whoa... good to see poets and writers in here. I came from a family of writers, and I guess this is the reason why I can't escape writing. It's in my blood.

In all honesty I just hate writing. I hate looking at the blank piece of paper for several minutes waiting for the words to come to me. I hate struggling with words as I seek to express the emotions that I feel. And I hate the profound effect of these words on me whenever I end an essay or a feature article. I've been phlegmatic all my life, but when I write, I have to shift to being melancholy, and I hate it.

But I cant seem to escape writing... I always find myself landing on jobs where writing is required. And yeah... I did not at all applied for these jobs, they came to me. And guess what, I'm actually doing a good job in writing. I just dont like the creative writing process. It's not at all "magic" to me... it's actually a passionate struggle.

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Originally posted by Dawn Butterfly:

In all honesty I just hate writing. I hate looking at the blank piece of paper for several minutes waiting for the words to come to me.

I hear you Dawn about staring at a blank paper. I guess since I don't get paid for the poetry I write, when I struggle I put it aside and wait for that magic moment (or muse) to come. And when that happens I get excited about my creation, so with that said, for the most part enjoy writing...and I do go back and make revisions on my posts. LMAO!