Writing #Tips from #Ficiton Authors:
"My first rule was given to me by TH White, author of The Sword in the Stone and other Arthurian fantasies and was: Read. Read everything you can lay hands on. I always advise people who want to write a fantasy or science fiction or romance to stop reading everything in those genres and start reading everything else from Bunyan to Byatt."
— Michael Moorcock
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"My first rule was given to me by TH White, author of The Sword in the Stone and other Arthurian fantasies and was: Read. Read everything you can lay hands on. I always advise people who want to write a fantasy or science fiction or romance to stop reading everything in those genres and start reading everything else from Bunyan to Byatt."
— Michael Moorcock
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Read poem structure and poetry techniques. What’s the best way to divide your poetry into lines? (Hint: "at random" is not the right answer!)
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Structure
Structure What separates poetry from other kinds of writing? There are many answers to that question. One answer might be that poetry organizes ideas and images in a way that gives more information, tells us something about the way the poet is thinking, helps…
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"Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you."
— Zadie Smith
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"Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you."
— Zadie Smith
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Lanturne Poetry
The lanturne/lantern is a short shape poem from Japan describing a specific one syllable noun, such as a feeling, a thing, or an abstract idea. The lantern poem takes the form of a hanging lantern, going from short to wider as the poem goes on, and then becoming short again in the final line. The purpose of the lantern poem is to illuminate the subject and re-imagine or personalize it for the reader, not just to simply define it.
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The lanturne/lantern is a short shape poem from Japan describing a specific one syllable noun, such as a feeling, a thing, or an abstract idea. The lantern poem takes the form of a hanging lantern, going from short to wider as the poem goes on, and then becoming short again in the final line. The purpose of the lantern poem is to illuminate the subject and re-imagine or personalize it for the reader, not just to simply define it.
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Lanturne - Poetry Form
Let's take a look at some well known poetry forms, and give them a try. The following form is mainly for syllable practice. Lanturne The Lanturne is a five-line Oriental form of poetry that has one, two, three, four, and one syllable per line, respectively.…
Writing #Tips from #Fiction Author's:
"Introduce your main characters and themes in the first third of your novel. If you are writing a plot-driven genre novel make sure all your major themes/plot elements are introduced in the first third, which you can call the introduction. Develop your themes and characters in your second third, the development. Resolve your themes, mysteries and so on in the final third, the resolution."
— Michael Moorcock
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"Introduce your main characters and themes in the first third of your novel. If you are writing a plot-driven genre novel make sure all your major themes/plot elements are introduced in the first third, which you can call the introduction. Develop your themes and characters in your second third, the development. Resolve your themes, mysteries and so on in the final third, the resolution."
— Michael Moorcock
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Read What is Refrain Poetry
A phrase or line repeated at intervals within a poem, especially at the end of a stanza.
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A phrase or line repeated at intervals within a poem, especially at the end of a stanza.
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Refrain Poetry
Refrains are words, phrases, lines, or entire stanzas in poetry and songs that repeat throughout the poem. Many traditional forms of poetry such as the Villanelle, Pantoum and Kyrielle poems feature a refrain line. In songs refrains are usually referred to…
Writing #Tips from #Fiction Authors:
"In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it." — Rose Tremain
"Always carry a note-book. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever." — Will Self
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"In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it." — Rose Tremain
"Always carry a note-book. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever." — Will Self
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An Intro to Meter, Part I
Meter is a unit of rhythm in poetry, the pattern of the beats. It is also called a foot. Each foot has a certain number of syllables in it, usually two or three syllables. The difference in types of meter is which syllables are accented and which are not.
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Meter is a unit of rhythm in poetry, the pattern of the beats. It is also called a foot. Each foot has a certain number of syllables in it, usually two or three syllables. The difference in types of meter is which syllables are accented and which are not.
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An Intro to Meter, Part I
Meter is commonly used in many forms of poetry. We will begin with syllables and stressed/unstressed syllables, which are an extremely integral part of meter. Syllables Syl·la·ble -- an uninterrupted segment of speech consisting of a vowel sound, a diphthong…
Writing #Tips from #Fiction Author:
"It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction."
— Jonathan Franzen
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"It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction."
— Jonathan Franzen
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Writing #Tips from #Fiction Authors:
"Work on a computer that is disconnected from the internet." — Zadie Smith
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"Work on a computer that is disconnected from the internet." — Zadie Smith
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Writing #Tips from #Fiction Authors:
"Interesting verbs are seldom very interesting."
— Jonathan Franzen
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"Interesting verbs are seldom very interesting."
— Jonathan Franzen
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cinquain
A cinquain is a five-line poem that was invented by Adelaide Crapsey. She was an American poet who took her inspiration from Japanese haiku and tanka. A collection of poems, titled Verse, was published in 1915 and included 28 cinquains.
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A cinquain is a five-line poem that was invented by Adelaide Crapsey. She was an American poet who took her inspiration from Japanese haiku and tanka. A collection of poems, titled Verse, was published in 1915 and included 28 cinquains.
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Butterfly and Mirror Cinquains
The Cinquain is a fun short form of poetry. It is an unrhymed poem consisting of twenty-two syllables distributed as 2, 4, 6, 8, 2, in five lines. It was developed by the Imagist poet, Adelaide Crapsey. It is sometimes used by school teachers to teach grammar…
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"Read it aloud to yourself because that's the only way to be sure the rhythms of the sentences are OK (prose rhythms are too complex and subtle to be thought out—they can be got right only by ear)."
— Diana Athill
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"Read it aloud to yourself because that's the only way to be sure the rhythms of the sentences are OK (prose rhythms are too complex and subtle to be thought out—they can be got right only by ear)."
— Diana Athill
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Triolet
The Triolet ("triplet"), a French verse form, is a poem or a stanza of eight lines that include two rhymes and two refrains.
One refrain is the repetition of the first line at the fourth line and the seventh line; this triple appearance of one line gives the Triolet its name.
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The Triolet ("triplet"), a French verse form, is a poem or a stanza of eight lines that include two rhymes and two refrains.
One refrain is the repetition of the first line at the fourth line and the seventh line; this triple appearance of one line gives the Triolet its name.
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The Triolet
"This is a fun little form with a rhyming pattern of A B a A a b A B that can either work with the A and B lines being completely repeated at the end, or just the final word or phrase repeated. The 'A' is repeated in line 4 as well. The a and b are of course…
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"Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."
– Anton Chekhov
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"Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."
– Anton Chekhov
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