Often times while I'm writing I will have a good idea, run with it, but once I have exhausted my idea, its hard to loosen up my train of thought. I'm really happy this has loosened up as the semester has gone on, but sometimes when I read a particularly challenging poem, its hard to think of a response.
This exercise has helped me not only in my poetry writing, but in other courses of study as well. I find that my essays are far less jarred and seem to flow better. I am not over-thinking and analyzing how every fact might be wrong, instead I find a way to prove it write with my newly expanded imagination.
I wish that I was still little, though. I have an imaginary professor sitting over my shoulder as I write sometimes and I worry that what I'm writing sounds silly or crazy. I wish I could let go and let my pen take me to a land of pink grass and trees that float on clouds. But sometimes I'm stuck, writing about my boyfriend (which is pretty cliche) or some melodramatic issue I'm having.
How do you loosen up and stretch your muse?
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Hey. Writing about issues in the here and now are well and good, but if you feel like you're having a dry spell in the creativity realm, try thinking about things in the past- anything that has had an impact on you in any way. Like the professor says, a lot of good poetry deals with everyday occurrences, but it doesn't just have to be a recent event. If you dream and notice any theme to them, write about that, or if you have a certain trend in your poems, a topic that keeps coming up, elaborate on that point as much as you can, going deeper and deeper until you have reached some resolve. Again, a lot of our writing leads us to subconscious issues if we give our writing enough time.
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