The Writing Manifesto

the obligatory warning.No matter what freedom of speech says, there’s going to be people offended by the following. I acknowledge that I have written all of these poems, and I take full responsibility for anything they may cause. That being said, these poems don’t necessarily all represent everything I think or believe in. Sometimes I become a specific character in my work… especially in the really sad and morbid poems, it’s usually just a quick phase I was going through. All in all I’m a pretty positive person, so probably my negativities get vented the most through poetry!

I also don’t proclaim to be the next amazing poet. I know a lot of these suck really bad. (High Self-Esteem? That is just… baaaad…) but it’s part of a collection. It represents everything I’m capable of. No one said one should be perfect at everything they do… and I’m not nearly perfect at writing poetry.

These document the last 3 years or so of my life. Accurately, maybe not. Someday, I’ll perhaps put up my earlier work (there’s around 100 poems written when I was 15-16.) They all follow a very strict writing process: write once, never edit. NEVER. And they all take about 5-10 minutes to write, if not less. Because I don’t work at my work – if it’s not instantaneous, it’s not the thought I want to portray.