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Pull out your favorite poetry volume and turn to a random page. Analyze the work before you, reading line by line for details, structure and hidden meanings. What about this piece is special? Is there anything about it that resembles your own work? Close the book and try to write your own poem using that same style. The subject and spirit should be your own, but see if you can apply a new structure to your writing.
Originally PublishedFeeling overwrought by a lack of writing time? Finding time to write is about figuring out what works best for you & your passion.
“E.L. Doctorow said once said that ‘Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.’ You don’t have to see where you’re going, you don’t have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice on writing, or life, I have ever heard.”
What I learned from veteran writers at a panel on essays.
