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I am working on real poetry, studying others and picking out the bones from the salmon of knowledge, searching for the path to success, trying to write a poem with so much depth only a deep sea diver with oxygen tanks will ever touch it, to write a poem with so many lexical […]

via Writing poetry or not — Jane Dougherty Writes

This beautiful writing spider floated in mid-air on the corner of my garage door. Spinning its lines next to the light, it sits waiting for the next poor bug to fly into the web. It is one of the biggest writing spiders that I have seen. Today I saw it wrapping up a bug for […]

via Spider Poetry — Roth Poetry

The strength of our poetry does not depend only on our maneuvering of words but the depth of our wounds, and being filled overwhelmingly with the healing. Poetry and Image © Copyright 2019, ancient skies

via The Strength of Our Poetry — Ancient Skies

There is a warm mystery In the way he talks to her She reads him in time’s suspense Embracing his lines of love….like Smoky whisper of vetiver on skin She aches for the rush of the warmth of his breath Letting love lean into her Letting him hold her soul Letting the ink draw words […]

via Language Of Poetry — yaskhan

by Cecilia Lewis Setting and worldbuilding are critical aspects of your novel. Having a vivid setting can pull readers into your story and bring it to life, and unique worldbuilding is often what sets a book apart. In editing both my clients’ books and my own, I find that establishing the setting is […]

via How to Deepen Your Worldbuilding — A Writer’s Path

by Allison Maruska Don’t worry, this post is still approved for general audiences. Though if you’re looking for the more adult definition, this is the interwebs. Just don’t be gone too long, because that might not help your career advancement. Anyway.

via Writers Can Help Themselves Get Lucky — A Writer’s Path

by Meg Dowell Writing is hard enough. Add imposter syndrome into the mix and it becomes the kind of challenge you have to remind yourself, quite often, is still worth pursuing.

via I Deal with Imposter Syndrome Daily and I Haven’t Quit Writing Yet — A Writer’s Path

by Lev Raphael When I published my first short story in Redbook after winning a prize, I thought my career was set. I was my MFA program’s star (that year, anyway); I’d made a lot of money for a graduate student through the prize and the magazine; I was getting fan mail and […]

via 5 Things Nobody Tells You About a Writing Career — A Writer’s Path

by Kelsie Engen I’m deep in the throes of editing my current WIP right now, Broken Time, which is why my poor blog has been taking a backseat. And what this really means is that I’m deep into the nitty-gritty of grammar, word usage, syntax, and pretty much the non-glamorous aspects of writing.

via 5 Overused Words in Fiction — A Writer’s Path

by Mindy Halleck In 2011,I embarked on one of the harshest undertakings; I placed what I thought was the final draft of my novel in a drawer for one year. Why? Because, as I told others in my most knowledgeable author voice, “A writer needs distance from their material before editing and rewriting.”

via How Objects Tell Your Story — A Writer’s Path