I have one project that's more successful than all my books put together, and I arrived at it entirely by accident. It's called Song Lyrics Generator and it's basically just a bit of fun that I knocked up when I was at university, to amuse my friends, which then exploded.

Over the last few months, I've been collecting suggestions from people that use the site, and the one request that came up over and over again was for a poem generator.

I shied away from writing a poem generator for years, bec...