Day one: Hang around house all day, writing bits of useless information on bits of paper.
Day two: Decide lack of inspiration due to too much isolation and non-fraternisation. Go to pub. Have drinks.
Day three: Get up and go to pub. Hold on in there, a style is on its way. Through sheer boredom and drunkenness talk to people in pub.
Day four: By now, people in the pub should be continually getting on your nerves. Write things about them, on the backs of beer mats.
Day five: Go to pub. This is where true penmanship stamina comes into it’s own. As by now, guilt, drunkenness, the people in the pub, and the fact you’re one of them, should combine to enable you to write out of sheer vexation.
Day six: If possible stay home … and write. If not Go to pub.
Using this method, this is a poem I wrote, called “LONDON” Aah
Just Got Over To London. Get Me A Pint Of Ya Fine Ole British Ale!
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Footnotes
Sources / Links
Ford, Simon (2003). Hip Priest: the story of Mark E Smith and The Fall. London: Quartet Books.
Mackay, Tommy (2018). 40 Odd Years of The Fall. Place of publication unknown: Greg Moodie.
Pringle, Steve (2022). You Must Get Them All: The Fall on Record. [paperback edition]. Pontefract: Route Publishing Ltd. [Online store]
Smith, Mark E. (1985). The Fall Lyrik & Texte Von Mark E. Smith. In Deutsch & Englisch. With Drawings by Brix. Berlin: The Lough Press. [AKA The Orange Book. Available online in The Internet Archive]
Smith, Mark E. (2008). vII. The Lough Press & AMarquisManipulationProductions. [AKA the Blue Lyrics Book]