I like where I started last week allow me to continue
The previous post was about making sure you attend your immediate circumstances before your art, now that is only the beginning. Truthfully that should have been my first post and this should be my second. Slam poetry is based on real life experiances, I've heard a lot of it and most doesn't involve Peter Jackson style talking trees and magic amulets. So if your writing poetry from your life and putting your energy, passion, and creativity into it(talk to me about something else if your not) then when your done with a piece you should have learned something. If you didn't then you didn't stretch yourself.
Since your writing about real life experiances that you have and unless your BATMAN are shared by others then each piece is a development in your logic. Each reflection opens new ideas and helps you grow, this can dispense with the disconnected writer so bound to his craft that he lives in misery devising it. This way your work helps you as you help it.
There is a problem with this, it leaves the artist at a constant challenge. Everything you do has the weight of moving you as a person further in the right direction. This way you don't allow yourself the easy way out by writing Slam pieces about how much of a jerk Newt Gingrich is. Create empathy for every dimension in your writing and grow it with care, it is scary though to be writing and at the point where you re-read what you have done and say to yourself "I have never done anything like this." Its that push that changes everything not just for you but for the people you show it too. It gives way to a ripple effect.
I will be honest, I was asked a while ago why I go to the North Star Cafe on Tuesday for spoken word and replied that it was like writing, I didn't know why I did it but that never stopped me. I just do it. I left out one aspect however, I don't go there for the social perks...don't get me wrong a lot of the writers there are wonderful people and some good friends but meh. I have friends. I go there because of that sonic push, that moment when someone comes and reads something that is going to shock us all and push us to stretch our own abilities not to match them but to overtake them.
Can we do it?
Since your writing about real life experiances that you have and unless your BATMAN are shared by others then each piece is a development in your logic. Each reflection opens new ideas and helps you grow, this can dispense with the disconnected writer so bound to his craft that he lives in misery devising it. This way your work helps you as you help it.
There is a problem with this, it leaves the artist at a constant challenge. Everything you do has the weight of moving you as a person further in the right direction. This way you don't allow yourself the easy way out by writing Slam pieces about how much of a jerk Newt Gingrich is. Create empathy for every dimension in your writing and grow it with care, it is scary though to be writing and at the point where you re-read what you have done and say to yourself "I have never done anything like this." Its that push that changes everything not just for you but for the people you show it too. It gives way to a ripple effect.
I will be honest, I was asked a while ago why I go to the North Star Cafe on Tuesday for spoken word and replied that it was like writing, I didn't know why I did it but that never stopped me. I just do it. I left out one aspect however, I don't go there for the social perks...don't get me wrong a lot of the writers there are wonderful people and some good friends but meh. I have friends. I go there because of that sonic push, that moment when someone comes and reads something that is going to shock us all and push us to stretch our own abilities not to match them but to overtake them.
Can we do it?
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