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This list is in no particular order as of yet. *** GeneratingHype For poetry: Genre(s): nature, human nature, romance, philosophical Style(s): structured, fixed, rhyming, free-verse--anything but advanced meter. Get me too far from iambic pentameter, I'm sad to say, and I forget everything I learned in linguistics. For prose: Genre(s): fictional perspectives, fictional life stories, fictional romance, humor, and nonfiction biographies I can best help with understanding and improving the basic writing conventions (especially punctuation and sentence structures) and advanced grammatical concepts. I also have experience teaching writers h

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So. Metre. It has become a dirty word in some poetry circles. It conjures images of withered, grey-haired men laboriously counting out beats and stresses whilst coughing up phlegm because of all the dust in their cramped and quasi-arcane libraries. It really isn't all THAT bad, trust me. So, without getting too 'old-man' technical - What is metre? what is it good for? And, importantly, how does one use it? Well, let's see if we can come up with some workable and easily understood answers by the end of this. #1: What is metre? Technical Language: The most well known metre, 'Accentual Syllabic Metre' is the rhythmic arrangement of syl

If you've ever taken a class in creative writing, you've no doubt heard the teacher repeat the phrase, "Show, don't tell" over and over again.  While there are few hardest rules in creative writing, this persistent little mantra might be the ultimate.  Teachers and writers who write about writing spout it out all the time, but what does it mean anyway?  After, isn't all writing really "telling" on some level? It's best to view "showing" not as a single technique, but a summation of the most effective writing techniques.  If we know anything about poetry, it's that the best poetry usually conjures specific and concrete images.  Beyond languag

Tips For The Novice It's an all-too common occurrence on my periodic forays into the world of internet poetry - writing weakened by a lack of fundamental knowledge concerning the essence of poetry writing. There are no rules set in stone about creative writing. The writer that strikes new trails can make a lasting impact on the world of poetry, but the chances of a writer stumbling upon golden words without a solid knowledge base are slim to none. The following tips for novice writers are intended to help shore up those fundamentals, to help the young writer breathe the essence of life into their poems, and to better share that essence with