Are crazy folk better at poetry

[ChristopherSea]

Pretty much anything will work after editing it many times.
The only exception to the above would be editing;
editing does not work no matter how many times you edit it.

Exactly ray, which addresses a point that I meant to come back to make before I jumped aboard your 'runaway train' in the other forum, ha, ha. I know some poets and authors that refuse to write in an altered state, whether it is chemical induced, an exicited emotional state or a heightened mental period (eg depression). Some say, it won't be good or it will be wierd and disturbing. I reply, and what's the problem with that, because you may capture something unobtainable, not available to you after the fact or in your 'normal' phase. Edit only when sober and sane!

I write in any and all conditions because (like mentioned) you can get some
wonderful stuff you'd never get any other way. When writing first drafts I
write as much and as many as I feel like and I'm careful to not delete anything
even if I think it's crap. Creativity works best when not bothered by doubt.

The judgement comes later when I'm editing. Adopting this method does
tend to produce A LOT of crap and pieces that are too long. Good. Editing
works best when you've got LOTS to delete. Besides, it happens quite often
that the worst crap has this one good line in it. I clip it and throw it
in a bone pile and use it straight or for generating ideas at a later
date (sometimes years if you happen to loose one of those files).
Always (almost) fun to see what you were thinking a zillion years ago...

All states of mind and body should be in play when it comes to creativity. I completely agree with your methods and madness. I have more pages of quips than ones with full poems.