Red Sky Session 1
Writing-Workshop run by Apples-and-Snakes
Red Sky Session 1- Mailika-Booker
Notes from the first Red-Sky-Sessions run by Apples-and-Snakes, a free series of writing workshops around poetry.
Create a Creative-Routine
- experiment-with-where-and-when-you-write
- maximise-your-writing-time
- No need to always be Writing-Every-Day, but have a regular routine.
Reading-is-Writing
- set-reading-goals.
- Read as many poetry books as possible
- Read-a-poetry-book-in-depth-each-month- underline and Make-Marginalia.
- Why do you like certain poems?
- What are they doing?
- How does the imagery work?
- Read-anthologies-to-find-new-poets.
- Read outside your era and experience. (Read-Widely)
Keep a Haiku-Journal
Strategies to mess-up-the-blank-page
- 5/7 min Free-Writing.
- Structured-free-writing- to a prompt or starting point.
- Underline lines and pull out into a new poem
- Start-with-simple-contrasting-statements- I know/ I don’t know etc
- Rhyme-train for three minutes.
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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...
haiku
A Japanese poetic form, renowned for its simplicity and focus on nature. Usually in English it is translated as three...
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,...
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...