Four Points of Good Workshopping
Over decades of running and participating in writing workshops, I’ve found that the best workshops happen when they include simple but effective guideline...
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Poetry as Music: The Fundamental that Poets overlook
Music is so important to poetry, that not developing it is equivalent to being tone deaf and trying to create a song. Remember, Sonnet means “Little Song&...
Finding the Words 2: The “Eight Words” Poetry Generative Exercise
In FINDING THE WORDS 1: BLACKOUT/ERASURE POETRY I presented a lesson on how to get out of your word rut and discover new vocabulary through that form. In this l...
Finding the Words 1: Blackout/Erasure Poetry Generative Exercises
Overview Writers default. That is, without quite realizing it, we write using preferred words, preferred sentence styles, preferred voices. This means a univers...
Four Principles for Beginning Creative Writers
Whether you are just starting out or later in your creative writing journey, making these four principles your own will help you advance your writing.
Imagery: The Foundation of Poetry
This poetry lesson covers the key foundation of poetry: imagery.
A Guide to Plot for Narrative Writers
Though some stories and novels are based on unrelated episodes (Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote), known as the ̶...