A Six Month Plan
Finally my copy of Volume 1 of Sybil’s Scriptorium is sitting on my bookshelf, and it’s a book I love to look at up there. The written works that were published are all amazing and entirely worth reading, and the illustrations are…
Learning to Read is Learning to Write
One of the best pieces of advice I’ve ever been given is that, “In order to be a good writer, you have to be a good reader.” I don’t remember where I first heard this, but ever since I heard it my…
Make Me Feel Something
One of the most interesting things about poetry is the emotions that it can cause. In all honesty plenty of the poetry assignments I wrote for school were meaningless and were simply words that fit into whatever format it was that my…
Senses In Poetry
The first poem I wrote was when I was in kindergarten and my class wrote a “Senses Poem”. Basically we wrote something that we could see, smell, hear, taste, and feel on the indicated lines of the worksheet. It was incredibly simple,…
Editing Your Poetry (A Rather Confusing Business)
Last month I talked about why writing poetry isn’t quite as difficult as everyone tries to make it seem. I pointed out that poetry doesn’t have any real rules and that it’s a way for you to express yourself using words however…
Why You Should Write Poetry
Writing poetry is a task that I believe a lot of people find incredibly daunting, especially for people who haven’t written poetry before. Or perhaps, those who think they haven’t written poetry before. Most people I talk to about poetry have a…