So you wanna be a poet, but then you realized that you have no idea how to actually start writing poetry. It sounded like a great idea to be a poet when writing poems was easy, when inspiration just struck and the poem wrote itself. All you had to do was hold the pen or type on the keys.

But unfortunately, that's not a great long-term solution. It's a trap that many poets fall into, myself included. I loved when inspiration struck me, even at the most random times, and handed me the perfect po...