This reminds me of John Cleese’s Cheerful Guide to Creativity. I nodded in agreement to both. Seeds need to settle, to take root before they sprout. Then there is that exhilarating moment when you sit with your keyboard and your fingers just reveal…
If it's poetry, I tend to try to get right to work. I think poems work that way for me. More "of the moment." Prose, well sometimes it take an incubation time. And within that time, sometimes, the idea turn out to be not so great. Next, please. :)
I agree with you about poetry, David. I've often tried to go back and edit old poems but found it incredibly difficult because I was no longer 'in the moment'. I think the type of 'attachment' we have to poetry is very different to that with prose.
This reminds me of John Cleese’s Cheerful Guide to Creativity. I nodded in agreement to both. Seeds need to settle, to take root before they sprout. Then there is that exhilarating moment when you sit with your keyboard and your fingers just reveal…
Where the magic happens...
If it's poetry, I tend to try to get right to work. I think poems work that way for me. More "of the moment." Prose, well sometimes it take an incubation time. And within that time, sometimes, the idea turn out to be not so great. Next, please. :)
I agree with you about poetry, David. I've often tried to go back and edit old poems but found it incredibly difficult because I was no longer 'in the moment'. I think the type of 'attachment' we have to poetry is very different to that with prose.