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Originally Posted by Amunet
I think some people are expecting me to try to be more like the literary geniuses of the world, this is not my calling, and not really my interest.
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Exactly my point. We often criticize people who post occasional poems on a whim as if they're trying to be the next Poet Laureate.
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Originally Posted by Amunet
I need to come up with an entire second album and I'm having a bad case of the " no new ideas" syndrome...
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From what I understand that's typical of musicians. The 2nd album is the real test of creativity because they have to produce it on the tails of their 1st album. The debut album is never a good indication of someones skill because we have no idea how long they spent on it before it was released. Novelists face the same problem. Supposedly, shitty novelists tend to make their 2nd novel more autobiographical because they've used their 1 good idea on their debut novel and have nothing in reserve so they fall back onto their own life experiences.
Actually, I'm not much of a poetry fan and I certainly don't try to write any. I know I suck badly enough that I shouldn't even bother. The two poets I read the most are Robert Graves and John Keats and that is only because other writing projects I've had have familiarized me with their life and works until I can place their poems in context with their lives. (I know neither of them are in keeping with my Gnet persona.) Check out Robert Graves sometime. There is a CD of his poems set to music by Jay Ansill and I highly recommend his book
On English Poetry, or any of his nonfiction books where he discusses poetry.