Mailika Booker
Poet and author. I attended Red-Sky-Session-1 where she ran a workshop.
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Creative Routine
You don’t have to be [[Writing-Every-Day]], but having a regular creative routine helps you to create more. It also helps...
haiku
A Japanese poetic form, renowned for its simplicity and focus on nature. Usually in English it is translated as three...
Free Writing
One of the most useful tools when starting to write sometmething and one of the simplest. You [[Write-to-a-Timer]], usually for...
Red Sky Sessions
A series of [[Writing-Workshop]]s run by [[Apples-and-Snakes]]. These are my personal notes from each session and more about what I...
Structured free writing
This is similar to [[Free-Writing]] but you start with a prompt. You can do [[bibliomancy]] or [[Ekphrastic-Writing]], depending on how...
Read-a-poetry-book-in- depth-each-month
In order to implement [[Active-Reading]] for poetry, [[Mailika-Booker]] suggested reading one poetry book over and over for a month, to...
Rhyme train
[[Writing-Exercise]] from [[Mailika-Booker]]. Write a word at the top of the page and set a short timer (2 or 3...
Read-anthologies-to-find-new-poets
[[poetry]] anthologies are useful to expose yourself to a range of new poets and find what you like [[follow-your-interests]] and...
experiment-with-where-and-when-you-write
In order to find your optimal [[Creative-Routine]], change where and when you write. Move to a different room. Write in...
maximise-your-writing-time
You may not have much time to write. You may have to [[write-in-the-cracks]]. So when you have time to write,...
set-reading-goals
Because [[Reading-is-Writing]] and [[Writers-Need-to-Read]] you should set goals for what you are reading. These should encourage you to [[Read-Widely]].