Plot Help Anyone?

If you sign up for plot help from the 23rd of May, today, to the 29th of May, next week, I will give you my services free! Why? I’m bored. I’d love to help you out with your story, poetry, or series, so take me up on this amazing offer. During this week I am also…

Discoveries: Specifics in Poetry

Unlike most editing, adding in specifics can happen immediately after the completion of the poem when the idea of who, what, where, when, and why are still fresh in your imagination.

Poetry Writing Advice to Live By

A great chef doesn’t get better at cooking without eating what other chefs make too!

Alternative Capitalization

This style of capitalization is new on the scene, but not as new as you might think! If you read Victorian era writing, you’ve actually seen this capitalization style. Remember when words like Death were capitalized because they were being used as a proper noun? That is an alternative capitalization strategy! This style is more…

Sentence Capitalization

To continue from a month ago with my series on capitalization in poetry, sentence capitalization is next. This style of writing is the most common today. The more you read, the more you’ll see it. The style is pretty basic. Write your poem like you would write your prose. If you would capitalize it normally,…

Poetry Critiques

Poetry is a type of artform that allows you to write it faster than read it sometimes because we always want a poem read twice. That makes it easy to spit out a poem and roll the dice that it’s going to be good, but hard to edit. Why edit, when you can just produce…

Line Capitalization

I said I would go into details about each of the capitalization types, so here I am! Line Capitalization is the original traditional way to capitalize poetry. It went out of fashion pretty quickly, around the time free verse started getting into the full swing of things, line capitalization went out of traditional style. It…

Commas In Poetry

Considering the general size of most other articles, I’m sizing mine down to single subjects. Commas in poetry are a very useful thing. There are many ways to use a comma in a poem. Most readers see them as general breaks in speech and allow the reader a pause before continuing, such as a breath…

The Palindrome

When it comes to structured poetry, there are all sorts of different styles, devices, and ideas for what can make a structure. The palindrome is one of the word-play structures like a found poem, or a cinquain. The palindrome bases itself around the idea that you can read something forwards and backwards, and get something…