A Simile is a form of comparison using "as" – or "like." "My love is like a red, red rose." Are you keeping a Writer's Notebook? Try writing 10 similes. (Sort-of looks like "smiles, doesn't it?)
Read MoreWhat about an AUBADE? It is a “dawn poem” that is set at sunrise – and usually, it is about the parting of lovers. One of the best known aubades is in Shakespeare’s...
Read MoreTry writing a Sonnet. How about a Shakespearean Sonnet? Let us speak here of Vivian Smallwood whose book, And Finding No Mouse There was published by Negative Capability Press in 1983. I say confidently that Vivian Smallwood...
Read MoreIt’s just plain easy to write one sentence, yes? That’s all we have to do, isn’t it? Write one sentence and then another and yet another – and we have a prose poem, a short story, a novel...
Read MoreApril is the month to write Anaphora. Anaphora is the repetition of a particular word or phrase. Allen Ginsberg used anaphora and also Walt Whitman...
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