Member's verse. Waxing poetic. Getting writing again.

[Mick Molloy]

My best poetry is inspired by Guinness, Jameson or trains

[Niall]

My best poetry is inspired by Guinness, Jameson or trains

trains?
i havent written anything in years, maybe i'll put it on my new years resolution list

[Mick Molloy]

My best poetry is inspired by Guinness, Jameson or trains

trains?

Yeah I sit in trains 2 days for 9 hours. That's quite boring if you have nothing to do

[Niall]

My best poetry is inspired by Guinness, Jameson or trains

trains?

Yeah I sit in trains 2 days for 9 hours. That's quite boring if you have nothing to do

i can imagine

[Gurrier]

My mate just gave me the best advice I reckon...

I find the trick is to just do it. Even if you don't feel like you have anything to say, just start writing something - anything - it doesn't have to be entirely relevant to what you need to write, and eventually you'll be in the zone enough to write what you have to.

[KathleenwithaK]

The important thing is to just DO it, everyday. I am not a writer but an artist (yes! writers are artists!, i'm referring to being a visual artist) and it it important to me to draw every day. even on the back of drink coasters and coctail napkins, anything, anywhere. actually some friends and i kept years of coctail napkin drawings and scribbled thoughts and did a collaborative piece called "bob art" about them...bob" being the quintessential generic name. It is an exercise that is good, no matter how uninspired you feel you can't thelp but feel better for having done it.

[TheIrishRover]

Just last night I decided to start writing a book. I haven't settled for sure on a name, but I'm thinking ''Eighteen Years in Melbourne Gaol'' set in the Melbourne Gaol during the mid-1800s.

[Shaz]

I'm not a songwriter, but i write non-fiction and dabble with fiction. I aim to write something every day, even if it's only a few sentences. The best advice I had was from a friend who's a playwright -- keep a writing journal. Mine's a glorified notebook, but it's great for scribbling things down in when they occur to me, even just odd words or phrases. I also save newspaper or magazine articles or pictures and tuck those into the notebook if I think they will be useful, or spark something off.

[firehazard]

Though I spend much of my life editing what other people have written, I also write quite a bit myself. Sometimes I get paid for it, sometimes I don't. Trouble is, and I am fully aware of this, that I'm lazy about my own writing. And I hate staring at a blank screen, or a blank piece of paper, waitiing for the inspiration to come. So if I'm writing to commission, and I know there'll be money at the end of it, I'm far more likely to knuckle down and get the writing done.

Tips: well, what Shaz just said is very good sense. And if you have an idea, or a moment of inspiration, get it down in writing. Even if you don't think it's perfect, it's better to have made a start on something that can be worked on later.

[Billie]

I write songs, articles about rugby, short stories and I used to write poetry as well. In all these activities (except short stories) I used both Italian and English. I even wrote a song in Spanish.
The only things I published are two articles about rugby, one for the Italian Armed Forces magazine ( ) and one for an Italian web-magazine mainly about Northern Ireland.
The songs I write are very-Pogues inspired. I use lots of quotations from other artists, and Pogues do get a lot in my songs. We're currently lookin' for an accordion player and a bassist (I want to switch to guitar, as I am now the bassist) because we want to turn from a Clash-punk-rock to something more similar to Pogues, Floggin' Molly and Junkman's Choir/Nyah Fearties (our latest discover. we want to play "Red Kola").
Our current name is Pressure Drop, and we recorded a 9-track-demo (with two covers: I Fought The Law and Doesn't Make It Alright [Specials]) of when we were a very Clashy band.
Now we've just recorded a two-track demo we're willing to sell. The "side A" is "Out Of A Coma", a song of ours dedicated to Joe Strummer, and the "B-side" is our version of Tom Jones's "Delilah", quite similar to Flogging Molly's version, though I think we succeded in makin' it quite personal.
Beside our songs, when we play live (very seldom) we also play some songs recorded by the Pogues: a punkier version of "Birmingham Six", and we end our gigs with "Dirty Old Town". Sometimes we play "The Wild Rover" for fun, and we also played, sometimes "Baba O'Riley" by the Who and Redskins' version of "Levi Stubb's Tears" by Billy Bragg.

[Shaz]

And if you have an idea, or a moment of inspiration, get it down in writing. Even if you don't think it's perfect, it's better to have made a start on something that can be worked on later.

I learned very early on that most of the writing process is polishing/rewriting. Anyone who tells you they get it right first time is telling porkies

[ChubbyMcManboobs]

The old bent mother is crap.
The old bent mother is crap.
No more cartilage left in her knees you see.
The old bent mother is crap.

[Benno]

some of my writing is here
http://www.myspace.com/benyoujerks

though, it is my style to keep my most precious works closer to my heart
that one on there is just me regurgitating the messages of hemingway
or at least the ones i got from him
mmy more personal, and originally styled works i would never post on the net

[LittleCupcakes]

The old bent mother is crap.
The old bent mother is crap.
No more cartilage left in her knees you see.
The old bent mother is crap.

Those are some strange, bewildering, verses there Chubby.

But Welcome! nonetheless.

[TheIrishRover]

That reminds me of a poem I wrote in Spanish.

Oye cabrón;
Singé tu madre;
Comí su chicharrón;
Y apuñalé el padre tuyo.

I love how it forms a set of stairs on the right.