How do you write - do you come up with a concept and then find words for it, or come up with words and let a concept (if there is one) emerge?
As cringeworthy (probably) as the raps I wrote in my teenage years were, I think I was basically approaching writing the way it 'should' be approached in those days - just trying to come up with clever rhymes and boasts, just churning it out, addicted to it. Unfortunately if I was to write a poem nowadays I'd feel the weight of all the literary criticism I've read on my shoulders - or rather, I'd feel it peering over my shoulder