Looking over my favorite lines from my two upside-down poems in the last post, I started noticing some interesting, slightly altered repetition. But before we jump into the next round of drafts which will get us looking at rhythm and rhyme, I want to share something fun I found. Poemage Poemage is a visual close-readingContinue reading “Revising Poetry-a Demonstration Part Six: Redrafting for rhythm and rhyme”
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Revising Poetry-a Demonstration Part Five: New Redrafting Ideas
The dVerse Poets Pub prompt for Poetics is Blue Tuesday. Sarah challenges us to write Blue poems which gave me an idea for another redraft, “Put a color on it.” This a great way to think about revising to emotion as well. When you’ve identified the mood and emotion you want your poem to convey,Continue reading “Revising Poetry-a Demonstration Part Five: New Redrafting Ideas”
Revising Poetry-a Demonstration Part Four: More Redrafting
Preparing for today’s redrafting After all my redrafts, I plan to make my final choices and send a draft off for some feedback. I plan to try both Scribophile and Poetry Free for All. Both of these sites expect you to give feedback before you post asking for feedback, so I thought I would getContinue reading “Revising Poetry-a Demonstration Part Four: More Redrafting”
Revising Poetry-a Demonstration Part Three: Redrafting
The poem as I left it last: She stares out the kitchen window An impression arrests fruit flies in kitchen sinks full of ideasfrozen mid-irritation, like tinnitus of Meniere’s before the dizzying vertigostepping out of a spiral, the view becomes clear, as if finallyfinding the source of wafting, permeating decay Contentment empties the glue ofContinue reading “Revising Poetry-a Demonstration Part Three: Redrafting”
Revising Poetry-a Demonstration Part Two: The First Redraft
Exploring the Narrative Voice The Poetics prompt at dVerse Poets Pub is a great way to introduce the next step in my revision process. Ingrid challenged us to explore Narrative Voice. One of the first things I did in my poem review was look at the point of view and narrative of the poem. ItContinue reading “Revising Poetry-a Demonstration Part Two: The First Redraft”
Revising Poetry-a Demonstration Part One: Review
The First Read I printed out my poem in larger than regular font (14pt) and 1.5 spacing. Then I read it aloud while walking around the room. The poem I’m reviewing is the first poem I wrote during NaPoWriMo last month: Breeding Fruit Flies with Two Different Eyes An impression arrests the fruit flies inContinue reading “Revising Poetry-a Demonstration Part One: Review”
Revising Poetry: Creating a process
A Seed of Hope The seed yet planted has potentialit may be the one to burst into sproutthe tiny green hope watched by the discerning eyenot ignored as the yellow flowers in the garden,the kale gone to seed soon composted to clear the way That quadrille (a poem of 44 words) in response to today’sContinue reading “Revising Poetry: Creating a process”
Revising a short story: the penultimate pass
Now that I have revised at the story level and the scene level, it is time to dig into those paragraphs, sentences and words. A fun and useful tool to use at this point is the word cloud. I put my text into Word It Out and created this: The program has some great tools.Continue reading “Revising a short story: the penultimate pass”
Revising at the Scene Level
In my last post on revising a short story, I mentioned the many things a scene needs to do: have a goal have a conflict have an action that leads to a new goal character development world building reveal new information provide sensory information have a grabber or payoff For my revision, I assigned eachContinue reading “Revising at the Scene Level”
Revising a short story: Pacing and Structure
A couple years ago, my nephew became fascinated by my sewing machine. Emulating his grandfather (my father is always fixing something), he decided he needed to fix it. He would shove the little screw drivers into every opening. One time, while I was sewing, I found one of the extra feet inside the gears. SoContinue reading “Revising a short story: Pacing and Structure”
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