02-07-2014, 07:10 AM
Hi, AP, welcome, 
I feel your pain, I'm just learning to write sonnets too, and it's as if I can write in form (mostly) or I can write a poem but can't do both at once. I'm hoping if I keep writing bad sonnets eventually a poem will come through one.
Suggestions:
Post and edit the hell out of them. People here have been very generous with their time and expertise pulling mine along.
Read Leanne's intro on the sonnet practice thread, and read her many sonnets here.
Listen for IP, it's all over.
Good luck to both of us.
I feel your pain, I'm just learning to write sonnets too, and it's as if I can write in form (mostly) or I can write a poem but can't do both at once. I'm hoping if I keep writing bad sonnets eventually a poem will come through one.
Suggestions:
Post and edit the hell out of them. People here have been very generous with their time and expertise pulling mine along.
Read Leanne's intro on the sonnet practice thread, and read her many sonnets here.
Listen for IP, it's all over.
Good luck to both of us.
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