Well, it seems like an age since I was last writing poems and stories on here, I'm hoping to get back and join up with you all. My writing journey as continued to grow (slowly) and with some moderate types of success, I have a little book (Spot to Spot) in the museum and tourist offices in Wrexham (UK) and one of my poems made a surprise outing on the TV programme 'Countryfile'. So it as been a little exciting in these unprecedented times of confusion. Keep writing Steve |
Morning Guys and Gals, a fellow writer and friend posted and asked a question on Facebook about poetry, a question with many long answers and not many short ones, what would your answers be? His question was- "Hi folks quick question to all my perfectly poetic pals: When writing poetry do you have to include much grammar or do you just go with your gut" |
Hi there! I am sorry to take up your time but I saw that you write horror stories and I wanted to let you know that there is an amazing contest
There are amazing prizes and all the participants receive 500 GPs just for entering. There are three prompts and all you have to do is write a story on any one of them! I do hope to see you there. Thank you! |
Here is my very first newsfeed LOL, I would like some advice? I am stuck either writing poetry or skipping from subject to subject (book to book). I just can not seem to sit and finish one and then go onto another. I can be writing away then get a random idea into my head, then that idea seems to take over. What do you all do to keep focused, or is this just the normal thing to do. |
Hello Stephen, I've had this problem before too (jumping from book idea to book idea) as of right now I have ten ideas for books. I recently wrote the third draft of one of them and am in the process of starting the fourth and hopefully final draft. My advice is to choose one, probably your favorite or the one that is most developed and put all your attention on it. If you have other book ideas write them in a notebook, tablet, laptop, phone, etc and work on them later after you have written the other one. I hope this helps in some way. |
If I am writing for a specific prompt, I try to connect or link them back to the original prompt in one way or the other. Otherwise, after I have written the poem with whatever that came to my mind, I revise the poem to see which things are completely different from what the poem should have been about |
Wish I could help, but when I'm writing I generally have a one-track mind. Maybe some additional planning before you write would help? |
To me, personally, I include punctuation in most of my poems except if the poem is a prose poem or a story poem, unless punctuation is needed as it often may be, to make the message or story clear..
Hope you understand what I am saying. It's certainly not meant to be ambiguous.
Vaughan
And a lot of times, I don't put any in. I'm forever playing with punctuation, put a comma in, take it out, put it back in, read it again, take it out...