It's time for you writers to stop being a bunch of sissies!

[WolfLarsen]

It's time for you writers to stop being a bunch of sissies!

It's time to write poetry with all of the adjectives & nouns in our genitals! It's time to write all our defecations on the page! It's time to write all of our insanities with our pens & swords & phalluses!

It's time to conquer! It's time to conquer the page with blood & caffeine & urine & raging hormones! It's time to throw all our sex on the page! It's time for our words to become spermatozoa!

It's time to write poetry around our bellybuttons! It's time to write poetry on toilet paper & traffic tickets & court summons! It's time to write poetry with our fists! It's time to kick the page over & over again with all the monstrous monsters in our brains & guts!

It's time for you writers to stop being a bunch of sissies! It's time for you writers to get creative! It's time for you writers to have some balls! Write something new dammit! Write something with balls dammit! Write something that's never ever been written before dammit!

[DocHeart]

I don't know if it's the wine or what, but I actually feel quite energized after reading this.

I'm gonna go off and turn words into spermatozoa, and inject them into the uterus of Microsoft Word. By morning time, something must have happened.

[miyako73]

Now this is unrestrained writing. When I was in college, I wrote a 50-page philosophical thesis on warm bodies and dirty sex. my professor gave me 1.0 (A+) and a comment--go fvck someone.

[hillwalker]

Sadly it's less restrained than you might think. It's all been done before (by the OP ad nauseam) and by more innovative writers in a much more effective way.

A case of 'do as I say, not as I do' - preaching to those who converted years ago.

H

[Delta40]

I really liked the idea of writing poetry around bellybuttons but I agree with Hill's comment.

[cacian]

Writers!! bunch of sissies!! and whatever else. It takes balls for someone to write let alone expose. Sissies is not the word.

[AuntShecky]

That's the trouble with male writers. They think with their genitals and schtup with their brains.

[hillwalker]

That's the trouble with male writers. They think with their genitals and schtup with their brains.

Not all male writers, unless you're getting more jaded than you have been letting on.

H

[miyako73]

I wonder if Naipul's literary misogyny is also sex-fueled.

[AuntShecky]

I wonder if Naipul's literary misogyny is also sex-fueled.

Well, D. H. Lawrence's views certainly were. (if you buy the notion that he was a misogynist.) Good old Shaw was just the opposite.

[WolfLarsen]

I don't know if it's the wine or what, but I actually feel quite energized after reading this.

I'm gonna go off and turn words into spermatozoa, and inject them into the uterus of Microsoft Word. By morning time, something must have happened.

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH Docheart!

Regarding what others have said: the contention that it's all been done before may or may not be true. However, it needs to be said over and over again because the literary world is a boring monotonous desert. The literary world today reminds me of all of these boring buildings in the "internationalist style".

Walking through many cities today regardless of the part of the world (I've been to over 50 countries), the contemporary architecture is by and large the same: boring and monotonous – just like the literary world.

Every once in a while they put up a great structure like Frank Gehry's band structure in Chicago or art museum in Spain, but by and large both architecture and the literary worlds are boring.

There are many architects who would like to put up more interesting buildings, but the developers are usually not interested. I suppose in the case of writers many are more interested in trying to please the commercial publishers then in writing something original and exciting. It's a similar problem.

But at least people who write with commercial aims are conventional and boring on purpose, mostly for financial reasons. But others simply appear to lack the imagination to write something creative, and they sometimes become angry that others are inclined to write creatively.

I simply become annoyed at clicking on endless threads of monotony. And it seems like when somebody does write something creative on this site they are often chased away by the rude comments of the traditionalists. I'm not talking about rude comments directed at myself in the past, but there was a brief period where there was so much good stuff on this site. Certain traditionalists chased them away.

[hillwalker]

Regarding what others have said: the contention that it's all been done before may or may not be true. However, it needs to be said over and over again because the literary world is a boring monotonous desert.

...which you seem desperate to add to, grain of sand by boring grain of sand. If you're such a radical revolutionary why are you contributing to the 'endless threads of monotony' by creating your own with tiresome regularity? It's like LitNet's version of 'Groundhog Day'.

I'm not going to recycle the same, pointless dialogue we shared on here nine months or so ago where you somehow associated me (and other regular critics that actually try to provide meaningful feedback) with 'traditionalists' and accused me of driving away new members. If that's your sole agenda then count me out. There are other sites where one can discuss literature with like-minded individuals who take their writing more seriously than themselves

If your work is so novel and exciting let's see some of it rather than the puerile nonsense you keep posting - where the occasional 'rude' word is supposed to shock everyone and therefore appear innovative. Kindergarden stuff at best, I'm afraid.

H

[cacian]

Regarding what others have said: the contention that it's all been done before may or may not be true. However, it needs to be said over and over again because the literary world is a boring monotonous desert. The literary world today reminds me of all of these boring buildings in the "internationalist style".

Walking through many cities today regardless of the part of the world (I've been to over 50 countries), the contemporary architecture is by and large the same: boring and monotonous – just like the literary world.

Every once in a while they put up a great structure like Frank Gehry's band structure in Chicago or art museum in Spain, but by and large both architecture and the literary worlds are boring.

There are many architects who would like to put up more interesting buildings, but the developers are usually not interested. I suppose in the case of writers many are more interested in trying to please the commercial publishers then in writing something original and exciting. It's a similar problem.

The world is not as free willed as you think. Conspiracy theories reek but they must hold some truth somewhere.

[Jassy Melson]

I quit trying to write revolutionary poetry a long time ago. Now I write prose poems. They are more restrained, albeit wordier than revolutionary poetry. But they're better.

[WolfLarsen]

Creativity is all that matters!

Creativity and conformity are opposites! Creativity and rules are opposites! Creativity and a conservative outlook are opposites!