Writing poems. You might be good or bad, high or low productivity; but if you write poems, then you're a poet. It might be an occasional thing, or quite a habit.
The earliest one of mine we have is in my parents handwriting, from before I could write things down.
Somewhere in junior high I decided that I wanted to practice poetry. So I wrote a poem every weekday. One of them was a hundred-page epic that I brought in page by page, because I was showing them to acquaintances. I kept this up for several years. After that it stopped being quite so clockwork; I might write several poems at once, then nothing for a few days. But I kept writing them.
Now I do a lot of my poetic writing in the fishbowls, which means one or two dozen in a day, and several hundred in a year.
One of the things I've learned is that whacking out massive quantities of anything will make you better at it, even if the individual works are not all that impressive.
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Date: 2014-02-12 10:09 am (UTC)Writing poems. You might be good or bad, high or low productivity; but if you write poems, then you're a poet. It might be an occasional thing, or quite a habit.
The earliest one of mine we have is in my parents handwriting, from before I could write things down.
Somewhere in junior high I decided that I wanted to practice poetry. So I wrote a poem every weekday. One of them was a hundred-page epic that I brought in page by page, because I was showing them to acquaintances. I kept this up for several years. After that it stopped being quite so clockwork; I might write several poems at once, then nothing for a few days. But I kept writing them.
Now I do a lot of my poetic writing in the fishbowls, which means one or two dozen in a day, and several hundred in a year.
One of the things I've learned is that whacking out massive quantities of anything will make you better at it, even if the individual works are not all that impressive.