Are crazy folk better at poetry

[billy]

TOMH thanks for the comment!! Ya i feel as if my poems are pretty hard to crit because what i am going for is not usually clear. What is usually more clear is the awful editing process haha. I am trying to write ore structured things to make may poems seem more straight forward.

hi bunx,

like everything, poetry or writing good poetry is a learning process.
i doubt any of us would get a job changing tyres in formula one racing. i'm pretty good with my hands, i've been told i'm a natural when it comes to building stuff or repairing stuff, and i agree, i am, but whenever i built or repaired something the first thing i did was get the books out, or do a mock up (partial build) if i was doing figurine repairs i did trials on cheap ornaments to test setting times and firing points. if i made a piece of jewellery i used lead instead of gold for the first few mouldings.
never be pissed off with feedback always be grateful. this goes for crazies as well as non crazies

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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...

i think that's the secret, look on the first creation as a draft and edit till you have what you want. the more you write in the draft the more you'll have to work with on an edit.