What is micropoetry?
"Micropoetry is a genre of poetic verse which is characterized by its extreme brevity. In other words, a micropoem is a short poem." (Quote pulled from Micropoetry.) Think of modern-day poets like Rupi Kaur, Amanda Lovelace, and R.H. Sin who all write some form of micropoetry or instapoetry.
The Good:
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My book In the Mid-Hours comes out in less than a week, and I feel too busy with promoting it and just feeling all the nerves as the release day approaches closer so writing anything new has been sort of difficult for me. So to...
I teach writing courses at a university, and I’m sometimes astonished that my students submit stories that contain spelling, grammar, or punctuation mistakes. I realize they’re learning to write and that they, therefore, make mistakes—that’s why they’re called students. But the amazing part is that...
Typography refers to the design, readability, arrangement, legibility, and appeal of fonts, line spacing, arrangement, and appearance of symbols, letters, and numbers. It is a crucial element that authors and writers sometimes overlook; however, it is important to the reader. Typography has an impact on...
Having read hundreds of books and written many reviews, I’ve realized that there are some things that authors may not consider as being important enough to include in a novel. Apart from the plot, characters, disclaimer, copyright, etc., there are some other options that either...
When I worked in journalism there was one principle that was so important that we never talked about it. Does that sound like an oxymoron? If it was important wouldn’t we have talked about it all the time? No, because it was just assumed—always—that news...
There are many ways to write articles but for the purpose of this exercise, we will use a generic system for writing basic articles.
What is an article? An article is a written document covering any subject that would be of interest to a large audience...
A common problem I’ve noticed in the modern writing world is the idea of figurative language. Figurative language is essentially writing in a such a way where the words mean something more than their actual meanings. It’s an art form; it requires subtlety, craftsmanship, and...
Have you ever watched a singing show like The Voice or American Idol? If you’re an American, I’m sure you have, at least accidentally. Every season seems to have at least one (sometimes several) artist that puts runs at the end of every line, or...
This is the first in a series of articles I’ll be writing on traditional poetic forms, and how they might be modernized. When you think of an ode, what form do you picture? Is it the Horatian style of Pope’s Ode on Solitude, the swinging...
