[Ghost1]

Originally Posted by Dominate

Battles was mostly
Think broadly of something I want to insult about my opponent (eg Bags's attempts at getting swole) --> think of of a wordplay or something on that topic that could have a double meaning ("resistance training") --> word it as an insult, preferably with humour ("hardest resistance training you ever did was slapping urself for having gay thoughts")--> rhyme it with stuff that's relevant or sets it up ("you ain't no gym rat, maybe yoga class & a couple of tame squats")

Some lines were different but that was mostly what I did.

Topicals I only wrote few of but every one that I didn't no show for was a result of me constraining myself in some way, otherwise I'd spend too much time thinking of all the different things I could write and actually get nothing written. Once I could only interpret the topic I was given in one fairly specific way, so I knew exactly what to write about and was just focused on trying to write it well. Once I decided to stick with the same rhyme scheme for the whole verse, I just started with a vague idea of what I was going to write about and let the rhymes I came up with more or less lead the way. That sounds like a terrible way to write but that might actually have been my best verse. I wasn't just writing whatever if it rhymed, I was just doing a "what rhymes? --> how can I make that relevant to what I already wrote?" process instead of a "what should I write next? --> how can I make that rhyme?" one. Once was a 'short verse' week and the take on the topic I'd settled on had a lot of action for me to write, so again I knew exactly what the content was going to be and could just focus on the writing. Once I decided to do a job advertisement which had a very specific style to adhere to.

SIR

I am fucking yolked