Writer's block

[Brigid ✩]

same XD

[Amy]

Brigid, that was a good poem! :) Haha, I suck at writing poems... they're not really my forte.

[D.C.]

Ga does anyone like rhyming poetry? And what else is there besides rhyming and not rhyming?

[Veronica, What the neck!?]

I like reading rhyming poetry, if it's good.

I mean, you cannot seriously say that you hate the Raven. I mean, it's really long, but it is an amazing poem!

[Amy]

I like reading rhyming poetry if it makes sense. Some people just randomly put in words just because they want it to rhyme. I remember once in 5th grade, a girl wrote a poem about running, then suddenly it turned into eating a breadstick, then about sleeping in on Saturdays. >.<

[Veronica, What the neck!?]

Yeah... that's why I don't like to write rhyming poems--because I'll end up having to throw in a random word.

[Brigid ✩]

yeah ... i like rhyming poems if they seem effortless, and not like the person is trying too hard to make it rhyme. if that makes sense.

[Amy]

Exactly. :)

[D.C.]

Alright I wrote a poem...about poems

I guess poetry is just my thing
I write in many different ways
Poetry comes to me easiest
It is my best work, a favorite

Rhyming poetry is simply the best to me
It creatively states the great beauty I see
Its pattern makes a simple line fun
The beauty lies in when it is sung

But don’t think that’s all I can write
Poetry is full of plenty of ways
To express yourself on bad days and good
It’s just that I prefer rhyming
Because it sounds so very nice

Another kind of poem I do like is haiku, a great delight

Formless poetry
Is very
Annoying to me, does it
Even take skill? Aparently
Not

Slant-rhyme is weird
To say the least
A word made to rhyme
As if picked from a list
An example I’ll give you
A girl was kissed
But the girl had a boyfriend
Who gave the kissed man a fist

My favorite rhyme
Is the one that rushes no pattern
It takes it’s time
To find a rhythm
To find it’s pace
Not a poem that’s raced
But that rhymes naturally
Not forced by a course
Just moving freely
Without any source

Poems are hard but beautiful things
They let us take flight and share our dreams
So I guess no poem is better than another
It’s just that I prefer rhyme better than any other

[Veronica, What the neck!?]

I liked how you used the style of poetry (or something about that style) in each stanza. Like, the Haiku one was short, just one line.

And Brigid, have you ever read the Raven? It is one of my favorite poems!

[D.C.]

Actually I love the Raven. Edgar Allan Poe, no matter how weird he was, was a great writer

[Veronica, What the neck!?]

For those of you who have NOT read the poem, here's the link.

http://www.heise.de/ix/raven/Literatu...

and some words:

beguiling -
\bi-ˈgī(-ə)l, bē-\
Transitive Verb
1: to lead by deception
2: hoodwink
3: to while away especially by some agreeable occupation

obeisanse -
\ō-ˈbē-sən(t)s, ə-, -ˈbā-\
noun
1 : a movement of the body made in token of respect or submission
2 : acknowledgment of another's superiority or importance

decorum -
\di-ˈkȯr-əm\
noun
1: literary and dramatic propriety
2: propriety and good taste in conduct or appearance
3: orderliness
4 plural : the conventions of polite behavior

nepenthe -
\nə-ˈpen(t)-thē\
noun
1 : a potion used by the ancients to induce forgetfulness of pain or sorrow
2 : something capable of causing oblivion of grief or suffering

[Veronica, What the neck!?]

D.C. wrote: "Actually I love the Raven. Edgar Allan Poe, no matter how weird he was, was a great writer"

Awesome. The Raven forced me to look up a few words...

[Amy]

I've heard of The Raven before, but never read it. Thanks for the link. :)

[Amy]

Oh and D.C., nice poem. :) I agree with Roni; I like how you used different styles when you were describing a different poem. But I noticed something It’s pattern makes a simple line fun. <---- There shouldn't be an apostrophe in "Its". lol
This is my favorite line: Poems are hard but beautiful things
They let us take flight and share our dreams

[Marley]

I like 'Dream within a Dream'. I don't like poems that tell storys, well, some of them anyway. I like some Rhyming poetry, who is your favorite poet?

[D.C.]

Thanks amy. i suck at grammar haha, so much for being a writer =)

[Marley]

I'm terrible at Grammar and spelling.

[D.C.]

Hey Marley! Hows it going? I like Robert Louis Stevenson as a poet.

[Marley]

OMG, my Elementry School was named for him Field-Stevenson, don't stalk me, lol.

I love Longfellow!!
I'm doing better, for now, things are going well, I just hope some of the last few things are sorted out. I believe things will work out

READ A PSALM OF LIFE!!
My favorite Poem!

[D.C.]

Oh I like Longfellow alot. Psalm of Life is really great

[Marley]

Liar, JK, I love it. I'm not usually an optimistic and happy person, though I seem it, and these peoms make me feel better.

[Sella, ov vey! i haven't checked this group in months. ><]

♥ Brigid ♥ wrote: "hmmm random poem ...


I hate random poems.
Potato.

:]"

omg thats hilarious!! sorry but i was cracking up when i read that. XD

[Sella, ov vey! i haven't checked this group in months. ><]

♥ Brigid ♥ wrote: "What is it with rhyming,
with the matching sounds and words?
Is it all about the timing,
to be admired when it's heard?

To think of a rhyme, I wait and wait.
It isn't all that easy.
It doesn..."

Haha you're a nerd for rhyming Brigid, according to your poem. Lol jk...I love that poem. =D

Anyways...I write both rhyming and unrhyming poems, but I prefer writing unrhyming poems more, because I have more freedom and my words just flow better. Although, sometimes rhyming poems are fun...it really depends on the poem, which style fits it better.

[Brigid ✩]

Roni wrote: "I liked how you used the style of poetry (or something about that style) in each stanza. Like, the Haiku one was short, just one line.

And Brigid, have you ever read the Raven? It is one of my fa..."

oh yeah, luv the Raven. :] Poe is awesome ;D lol

[Brigid ✩]

Sella wrote: "♥ Brigid ♥ wrote: "hmmm random poem ...


I hate random poems.
Potato.

:]"

omg thats hilarious!! sorry but i was cracking up when i read that. XD
"

gahaha. thanks. XD lol

[Brigid ✩]

Sella wrote: "♥ Brigid ♥ wrote: "What is it with rhyming,
with the matching sounds and words?
Is it all about the timing,
to be admired when it's heard?

To think of a rhyme, I wait and wait.
It isn't all t..."

yes, it's IRONIC!!! lol XD and thnx ...

[Sella, ov vey! i haven't checked this group in months. ><]

lol np =D

[Brigid ✩]

:]

[Sella, ov vey! i haven't checked this group in months. ><]

>.<

a good way to cure writer's block...go take a shower!! no, i'm serious. because i get most of my ideas from the shower, and that's how i figure out most of my story problems or get un-stuck! really, next time you don't know what to do, just go take a shower. something about the water and having nothing to do but just THINK makes ideas flood to you like mosquitoes to a light.

[Brigid ✩]

omg yeah totally!!

[Kenzie]

Or go and lay down. If I lay down for a nap I almost always come up with something.

[Brigid ✩]

uggh i can't nap!! i can never even sleep! :P
i think i'm a vampire ... O.o lol

[Kenzie]

<-- backs away slowly

That explains your cannibalness. *grin*

[Brigid ✩]

lol

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Now that I think about it, the shower thing really does work!

[Brigid ✩]

it does!

[Sella, ov vey! i haven't checked this group in months. ><]

yes it does! :D

lol, yes, brigid is a vampire. although, i can't ever take naps either...i can only sleep at night, for some reason. :D

[Brigid ✩]

gaaah i can't even sleep at night. >.< it takes me like three hours to fall asleep. and then i always wake up at, like, five in the morning. grrr.

[[deleted user]]

I'm a vampire because it's hard to sleep, and I'm super duper pale.

[Brigid ✩]

same! :D lol

[Brigid ✩]

on the subject of writer's block ...
Okay so yesterday I wrote fifteen pages without stopping! It was amazing! And the way I did it was that I made myself stop for, like, five minutes, after each page. For those five minutes, I would plan out the general idea of what would happen on the page I was about to write – no farther ahead than that. And it seemed to work. :)

[Sella, ov vey! i haven't checked this group in months. ><]

♥ Brigid ♥ wrote: "gaaah i can't even sleep at night. >.< it takes me like three hours to fall asleep. and then i always wake up at, like, five in the morning. grrr."

haha, i used to be that way. it used to take me around four hours to fall asleep every night, and i always woke up early. but then...i became so tired and stressed that now, i'm out the instant my head hits the pillow. >.<

[Sella, ov vey! i haven't checked this group in months. ><]

♥ Brigid ♥ wrote: "on the subject of writer's block ...
Okay so yesterday I wrote fifteen pages without stopping! It was amazing! And the way I did it was that I made myself stop for, like, five minutes, after each p..."

Really? Brigid that is amazing!!! I should try that, because I always have trouble writing a lot at one time. :D

[Brigid ✩]

yeah it works pretty well XD

[S.S.]

FIFTEEN pages!!! You're a writing machine. I can't get three pages written w/o interruptions or distractions. ADHD ha!

[Brigid ✩]

lol, well that is like my all-time record. i NEVER have the attention span to write that much at once ... usually i only write like half a page a day. lol. this time i just happened to be really focused. ><

[Sella, ov vey! i haven't checked this group in months. ><]

that's so cool! :D

[Brigid ✩]

yeah!

[Amy]

15 PAGES??!! Wow, you are productive!! :)

Argh, anyone know what's wrong my computer/goodreads? For like the past week, whenever I get on goodreads, all the images are not working, and the site looks all weird... like the links aren't horizontally listed (like groups, friends, books, etc.)... they're listed vertically... and all the links are really screwed up. :(