Consolidated List of Tips |
Foundation | For a poet to stretch and grow, the first thing is to know about the craft. The more you
learn about what a poem is, how it is structured, and what the options are, the better off you are. |
Inspiration | To write a poem, you must have a subject to write on. This section covers some
methods for discovering ideas to write about. |
Preparation | Before a poet sits down to write, here are some things to consider doing. |
Creation | You have your idea and your pen in your hand? Great! Now, while you are creating that
masterwork, you might want to consider a few new ideas.
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Nomination | Choosing a title can be one of the more important tasks for a poet. Here are some tips
on naming your works. |
Maturation | These are advanced tips for advanced poets. Most poets will never use these ideas
and never need to even read them. |
Conversation | Conversation. Dialogues. If you write dialogues or develop characters to spew
conversations in rhythm and rhyme, you might find some help in this particular area. |
Collaboration | There might be many different reasons to have either a partner or a team that a poet
would work in. Many reasons are related to bolstering strengths and eliminating weaknesses. For instance, when one is strong with words and the other strong with music
and you want to write songs. Other possibilities are for cross-fertilization of ideas, learning from each other, more perspectives on the subject, overcoming blocks, as a
creative challenge, or even just because you admire each other's work. It's also been rumored that it can be a great way to meet chicks. Speaking of which, writing
collaborations can be a lot like sex. There are examples of one-poem stands, and others where the relationship has lasted a lifetime. |
Frustration | Here are some tips for overcoming the dreaded Writers Block. |
Evaluation | Tips on editing and critiquing your own work and the work of others. |
Levitation | So, you want to write light verse... |
Cremation | The sad truth of some poems is that they shouldn't be left around as evidence. Here
we produce some suggestions for those poems. |
Publication | You've written it and edited it and reworked it and submitted it to critique, and you think
you have a great poem that you want to share with others? Here are some tips to speed you on your way. |
Recitation | Performance of poetry, either as spoken word recitation or as a song, can be great
learning tools for any poet interested in sharing poems or communicating a message to others. The tips in this section cover three areas: writing for performance, preparing for
performance, and performing poetry. |
Digitization | There are several considerations in creating a CD of poetry or songs. One is how to
select the items as the content. Another is the order. A third is how to go about actually creating and mass-producing the CD or other type of recording. Here are some tips to
help you in your process of creating your mass-market product, so that you, too, may be as rich as Madonna. Well, at least you'll have a nearly unlimited supply of paperweights
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Exhortation | Miscellaneous tips that didnt fit in with any of the other categories. |
Appendices | Other materials that relate to the tips for writing better poetry. |