I'm trying to make a book!!
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(10-13-2021, 12:42 PM)Kerbonzo_beenz Wrote:  
(10-12-2021, 07:00 PM)busker Wrote:  Quality over quantity
A single good poem over a thousand crappy ones
Writing that single good poem is the challenge and you’re light years away from it

Try practising formal poetry (in the sense of having a form)
Try writing Spenserian, Petrarchan, Shakespearean sonnets
Ottava rima and terza  rima
Odes
In pentameter and tetra meter
If you can’t do all that then you’re just a guy who doesn’t know how to play the guitar and thinks that his free strumming makes him Jimi Hendrix
But once you’ve done all that and have got a good grasp of the craft, you can turn to thr art of poetry
That’s where free verse begins
Sigh... thanks
Well, if you're going to write yourself a book write with great gusto. Seek others approval too readily and you will be sorely disappointed. Seek your own approval too much and you will become conceited. But I say, go with your gut first and foremost. Discouragement is certain to arrive but don't let that get to you. Take your talent and refine it and if you don't like your earlier works at least you'll have started somewhere. It's better than waiting til you die. There's always something to improve and if you wait, you will achieve nothing.
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I'm trying to make a book!! - by Kerbonzo_beenz - 10-11-2021, 07:38 AM
RE: I'm trying to make a book!! - by rowens - 10-11-2021, 08:23 AM
RE: I'm trying to make a book!! - by rowens - 10-11-2021, 08:28 AM
RE: I'm trying to make a book!! - by busker - 10-12-2021, 07:00 PM
RE: I'm trying to make a book!! - by FrenchToast - 10-13-2021, 10:27 PM
RE: I'm trying to make a book!! - by CRNDLSM - 10-13-2021, 08:19 PM



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