GIFTS

[Neville Briggs]

Zondrae. You can get little digital voice recorders ( thought recorders ? ) that are easy to carry around.

The Australian poet , Kevin Hart, said that when you become a poet, you are issued with a small notebook that you carry with you all the time. He told of how when walking down the street, he saw something that inspired a thought and he stopped in the middle of the footpath and wrote a small verse. He thought his action was probably to the bewilderment of other pedestrians.

[Stephen Whiteside]

The trick, I think, is to turn it around. Rather than inspiration driving the writing, allow the writing to drive the inspiration. Just sit down and write. There is a good chance that, if you stick at it, the inspiration will come eventually.

[Mal McLean]

I resemble your your remarks, Zondrae

[Zondrae]

I have a little voice operate recorder.
but I forget to 'bring it' with me.

As for Stephens suggestion. I have hundreds of poems written as you suggest, Stephen and they sound like it.
If you get my meaning. No natural spark, no zing.Then one hits out of the blue and it has soul.

Oh well, back to the salt mines,

[Mal McLean]

I carry a little spirax notepad when I remember and when the line or phrase occurs to me I jot it down. Later I transfer that to a word file I have called 'ideas to develop' with maybe some explanatory notes to remind me of the whys and wherefores. I have developed some good poems this way together with a lot of bad ones.

The problem that I have is that most of the lines I really want to remember occur in the middle of the night and are gone by the morning.

One day I will compose my great poem which will be entitled: Lines Forgotten at Midnight.

Mal

[manfredvijars]

... Rather than inspiration driving the writing, allow the writing to drive the inspiration ...

Wise words indeed Stephen ...

[keats]

Buy an iPhone. Does all this and more.

Neil

[Glenny Palmer]

Yeah Neil....but if you're texting turn OFF that flamin 'predictive text.' How much strife do you reckon I got into when my devoted iPhone sent this lot??.to a bloke, no less!

''I just love my new battery operated vibrator. You should come over & see it in action.''

I had typed in....''vacuum cleaner!!!''.............................

[Maureen K Clifford]

says you Glenny -now if that was on your face book page it would go viral

[Bob Pacey]

Ah shit I was halfway out now I have to go home again !


Bob