lisaeagle65 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2019 7:32 pmit's kinda fun to write a poem a day. Thank you for this.
Lisa. This is one of the great secrets of all writing, poetry, prose, whatever. Even fairly dry technical stuff. If you do it all the time it does get easier, like exercise. Obvious really, but many writers seem to resist this simple fact. They try to train themselves to be more productive, to not waste words writing less than perfect text.
There are no shortcuts. No magic template. But no writing is wasted if it teaches you something, if it opens you up to that inner flow.
This doesn't mean all writing is fit to share with the public, but once you begin to get a feel for what might work and what doesn't you'll find yourself subconsciously nudged to the better side. That's when you learn to trust your own instincts.
Once you no longer have to think so much about the 'mechanics' of it, the nuts and bolts of sentence construction and grammar, it frees your mind up for the more creative aspects. More about the subject and the feelings it exposes for you.
It lets you into the character or characters you are writing about, cranks up your empathy sensors to full power and sometimes even beyond. When you get that involved it seeps through into the reader as well.
In your poem about the eagle, flying high, observing, I was seeing the world through his eyes, feeling the lift of the currents beneath his wings. I also felt his solitude, a double edged blessing/curse.
Gyppo
