cadenzamuse: Cross-legged girl literally drawing the world around her into being (Default)
a real bisexual alien blast ([personal profile] cadenzamuse) wrote in [community profile] poetree 2014-02-11 05:25 pm (UTC)

[personal profile] muccamukk is hosting an informal writing workshop using Ursula K. LeGuin's Steering the Craft here. I think those exercises are well-suited for poetry--they're really about exploring writing basics:

The topics covered are:

The sound of language

punctuation, syntax, the narrative sentence and paragraph

rhythm and repetition

adjectives and adverbs

tense and person of the verb

voice and point of view

implicit narration: imparting information

crowding, leaping, focus, and control


which I think are useful things to return to and practice equally for poets and prose writers.

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