10-01-2013, 06:15 AM
I find that good writers are good at poetry, oh and people that put in the work.
Being crazy isn't much different to me than having a persistent high. I know some people who have certain mental illnesses and can overcome them to write good poetry, but thinking that crazy is the one way ticket to genius is likely to result in disappointment (but if you're truly out of touch maybe you'd miss all that).
I had a friend who thought he did his most creative work on shrooms. He didn't. It was a jumble and a mess when he came back to himself. I think crazy is the same way. If you're crazy and you write well, you've overcome the issue, or found a way to make it work (Philip K Dick for instance with his sci-fi).
So again, good writers tend to write better than non-good writers.
No surprise.
Being crazy isn't much different to me than having a persistent high. I know some people who have certain mental illnesses and can overcome them to write good poetry, but thinking that crazy is the one way ticket to genius is likely to result in disappointment (but if you're truly out of touch maybe you'd miss all that).
I had a friend who thought he did his most creative work on shrooms. He didn't. It was a jumble and a mess when he came back to himself. I think crazy is the same way. If you're crazy and you write well, you've overcome the issue, or found a way to make it work (Philip K Dick for instance with his sci-fi).
So again, good writers tend to write better than non-good writers.
No surprise.
The secret of poetry is cruelty.--Jon Anderson