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100 Days of Poetry Prompts

by Eva, in category Ideas, Poetry

Here are 100 prompts for promptly-written impromptu poetry. Use these prompts for daily practice, for warm-ups, for intellectual party games, or to pen last-minute valentines. Commit to the whole 100 days; flex your dactyls and indulge in spondaic spontaneity. Life is short, art is long long short. Poetry Prompts A Shakespearean sonnet about music theory.… Read More

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Poetry (Journal Worksheet Wednesday)

by Eva, in category Writing Worksheets

Writing Journal Worksheet – Poetry (PDF) What’s your favourite poem? Do you know it by heart? Have you studied it? How does it work? Does it have a rhyme scheme? What creates the rhythm? Does it use alliteration? Does it use assonance? Where are the line breaks? What are the themes woven into it? List… Read More

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Alternative Love Poems

by Eva, in category Poetry

Here is a small selection of alternative love poems, with a preponderance of sonnets, but absolutelyΒ no onions. More loving and mortal self-doubt can be found in my anthology of 100 rose poems: Centifolia. Love Poems A suggestiveΒ sonnet from John Updike… It reminds me a bit of that mention of a poet in Stranger in a… Read More

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writing journal: bath (part 1)

by Eva, in category Another Writer's Diary, Places

I wonder how Tennyson would have described the sight of a cloudless England from 20,000 feet; the shallow land, the molten silver inlets and rivulets, the tips of turning trees and the neatly enclosed patches of green. What would he have seen? How would he have assimilated it into the social consciousness? I watched the… Read More

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Metaphors and Similes Worksheet

by Eva, in category Writing Worksheets

Metaphors and similes: without them poetry would be prosy, religion would be non-existent and opiates would be indescribable. A good metaphor is more than a literary device; it can shift someone’s entire perception of a situation, often with memorable and lasting effect. Metaphors and similes are slippery in syntax and connotation, and I have a… Read More

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I asked the Midjourney AI to imagine a scene from I asked the Midjourney AI to imagine a scene from my gothic novel and I was blown away by the results! 🀯
This is so close to how I pictured the β€œOld Library” in my novel world. You can read a rough draft of the opening scene in my π•­π–‘π–†π–ˆπ– 𝕲𝖗𝖆𝖒𝖒𝖆𝖗 highlights.
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