My most recent pearl of Coach Wisdom:

[jwbaz]

If a poem is easy, it probably isn't worth shit.

Comments

[sirenoftitan1]

And how did your coachees respond to this pearl?

[jwbaz]

the teammate in question was very frustrated.

(which is to be expected from someone who's never workshopped/actually studied poetry before)

[sirenoftitan1]

Are you bringing them all tomorrow night? I hope so!

[nerak_g]

YES!!!

[ioncedreamtyou]

come coach my team.

[jwbaz]

as soon as you get that grant money, baby.

[brazencaucasian]

i don't necessarily agree with that.

In all my years of poetry including a large amount of time spent in college writing workshops, the best poems/stories I wrote were the ones that kind of flowed out. Yes, I would go back and edit a bit but for the most part the original text was mainly intact.

Now, i'm not saying that every poem that "flowed out" was great. I just wrote a lot so I had more to choose from.

There have also been poems that I struggled to finish and turned out like shit.

It depends on the poet.