I'm usually noveling and I haven't written a poem since.... college? But I guess #WhyTryNaPo worked because here I am, lost on my way to Camp NaNo where I should be revising a book called Dark Corners, Bright Spaces.
As Holy said, poetry can help improve prose writing too! Something I'm trying to work on in my novel writing is my showing/telling balance and more evocative descriptions. So instead of blobbing my way through a book, I'm going to blob my way through 30 poems!
I'll admit I thought to myself I will game the system and write A BOOK IN VERSE for NaPo.
But then I remembered:
1. I don't know how to do that.
2. I'm editing a book for Camp NaNo already & why would I do this to myself.
The Actual Plan:
Since an area of my writing I'm trying to improve is evocative descriptions and showing, every day I will pick an emotion at random out of my handy Emotion Thesaurus (Angela Ackerman & Becca Puglisi - HIGHLY RECOMMEND) and write a poem. The poem might be trying to describe or be about that emotion, or with the feel/vibe of that emotion - who knows. And since I don't know how to write a poem, I am simply going to go through the poetry resources on this here website and pick one style or technique per day and try it.
We'll see what happens, I guess. I'm going to try my best and I fully expect them to all be trash and also plan to share exactly zero of them here lol but I will keep you all posted on what emotions I write about and what techniques/styles I'm trying!!
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