Writing poetry: going from cheezy to poetic

There is, of course, all types of poetry. The key is to use the right voice and form for what you’re trying to express.

Now, a lot of people use poetry just as an outlet, a way to get their feeling across; it’s never that good, but people can relate to it and most people don’t notice that it’s not in good form, nor do they care. I call that cheesy poetry regardless of the fact that serious emotions may be involved.

It’s easy to change cheesy poetry around to make it more “poetic” by utilizing the endless possibilities and boxless capabilities that poetry form offers writers. Here are some things to take into consideration:

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Writing Help: Dialogue

I used to be terrified of dialogue. I’d write it, sure, but I can honestly say that I more often than not scrapped it. dialogue was the thing that stopped me from finishing any stories. Partly because the dialogue process just stopped the flow.

Another reason was because, like most

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Niche blogging

At times there is a niche that people create or adhere to in their blogs.  What is a niche?  For those of you who may be a bit confused about this, a niche is not as fancy as it sounds.  A niche is simply a series following a specific category of thoughts and information.  When you go to pages that are of a particular niche, you have a pretty good idea of what those pages will be about.  When readers are looking for

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A Little Girl's Fashion Faux Pas

I had a favorite doll with fair plastic skin and blonde synthetic hair. In the 70’s one was hard pressed to find a doll with anything but (fair skin and blonde hair). I myself had brunette hair. Quite long, with ringlets at the ends, and usually put in braids to keep it from knotting.

For a very long time I had wanted

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memoire blogging

Memoire blogging is fairly easy to do.  Everyone can.  After all, a memoire is one’s life story, in a nutshell.  Accorinding to the free online dictionary, some of the definitions of memoir (from the French memoire) are 

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A Drug Induced Dream "The Apostrophe"

Part 5 Dream Series for Writers

Strange lady doctor. Did not look like one. (Doctor I mean, she didn't look like one.) We were in her apartment maybe? Darkish hair. Not too long. Contemporary casual dress. Hair pulled back sort of, sometimes. Lived alone. Glasses? House not too clean, not too not. Had notebook or something she was holding and a pen or a pencil. I was reading before she came into the room and I saw an apostrophe on the page move, like a mite, or apostrophe looking bug, go right off the page.

This is what I’m remembering. But it’s happening too. The apostrophe was on the word “it’s”, second line from the bottom. It just...

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Letting Loose Your Dreams in Story Form

PART 4 OF DREAM SERIES FOR WRITERS

The oddities of dreams evoke, make us look, stay with us.

The best excersize for writers is to simply write.  This holds true when writing our dreams.  Write as if it’s not a dream, but as though your dream was something that really happened. 

Easier said than done, yes, I know this; we have the tendancy as I mentioned in the second article in this dream series Dreams Make the Best Stories?, we are too caught up in thinking of our dreams as being just that—dreams.  There is an unequivical match, however, between picking out objects and moments in dreams for the sake of analysis and retelling our dreams, drawing out the details that make our dreams the awesome stories that they are. 

If we can separate ourselves from this traditional way of thinking, and instead…

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The initial recording of your dreams, and why you sometimes cannot.

Part 3 Dream Series for Writers

So here it is, your dream, in your mind, you’ve woken up by the alarm.  It (the dream) is slipping away.  There is no time to think about it, to hold onto it.  In fact you may not even remember that you have dreamed as the alarm has blown all chance of recollection.  Sad indeed.  Though nothing lost, because what you don’t know you had you’ll never miss or think to look for. 

The fact is, however, that no matter what you may think, you do dream every night.  There are many stages of dreams as well… the getting to sleep dreams (sometimes noted by the feeling of falling, or your body jumping, both of these actions waking you up a bit); the R.E.M. dreams, the longest dreams, though not necessarily the most detailed dreams, these are the dreams in which you can fly…

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Dreams Make the Best Stories?

Dreams make the best stories. From snapshot moments to the fantastical. Bring them to life...

The topic, dreams. The situation, to transfer those dreams into story form.

The goal is to ultimately see your dreams as though you were writing a memoir or a piece of fiction. When you dream, the bizarre are not

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Dream Series

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Our Eye on Writing section will be sharing a dream series over the next few weeks. 

What do dreams have to do with writing, you ask?  Plenty!  Curious?  We hope so!

Be sure to...

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