Poetic Asides
Brewer explains that no matter what you write, a bit of poetic license can be a valuable asset to any writer's arsenal. Writing poems--drafts that will never see the light of day--has benefited his mental health a great deal over the years. On the page of a journal or in a Google doc, he can ra...
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| Published in: | Writer's digest Vol. 104; no. 3; p. 14 |
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| Format: | Magazine Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cincinnati
F & W Publications, Inc
01-05-2024
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| Summary: | Brewer explains that no matter what you write, a bit of poetic license can be a valuable asset to any writer's arsenal. Writing poems--drafts that will never see the light of day--has benefited his mental health a great deal over the years. On the page of a journal or in a Google doc, he can rant, rave, praise, and confront all the emotions swirling within himself as they overtake him. There is nothing wrong with this; rather, everything is right with processing your emotions and excavating those feelings. There are many ways to begin writing a poem: You could start with an image, or a bit of language that is sonically pleasing. But for the purposes of this exercise, were going to dive into emotion first--using examples of going from emotion to a bit of poetry. |
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| Bibliography: | content type line 24 ObjectType-Feature-1 SourceType-Magazines-1 |
| ISSN: | 0043-9525 |