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Originally posted by Fred Longworth:
Assuming some of you approach your poems these other ways, how have these techniques worked for you?
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I've got a weird way of writing poems, I think. I usually write while walking about town, or driving, when an interesting sequence of words comes to mind, or I see a picture I want to capture.
I rarely have a plot mapped out. I rarely have anything mapped out. I rarely delete the first lines, since they are most often the lines that capture what I wanted to say.
Then I ramble on for a while, come to the end, and stop.
The great thing about sonnets is that they have a clearly defined end. If you're in the habit of writing sonnets, you have to make a conscious decision to go beyond 14 lines. I rarely do, since I rarely have that much to say.
Julie