This is by far the most popular article in the history of poewar.com. It is a list of brief tips about writing poetry and the creative process in general. Newly updated.
Site Review: GTDagenda.com
GTDagenda.com is a paid membership site that provides people the online tools to organize their tasks and track their progress. It is modeled after the advice given in the popular book, Getting Things Done by David Allen. I first started using it back in January, and I have been using it to track my tasks
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Maintaining your Novel’s Pace-Time Continuum
Hours, days, months or years While it is possible to write one, I have never personally read a novel in which the events took place in a matter of minutes, but I have read novels in which the action took place over several hours or a couple of days. Franny and Zoey, the novella by
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Surviving as a Writer in a Bad Economy
Life as a career writer, or really as any employee in a down economy, is a difficult one. If you are out of work, your situation is bad, but your goals and direction are clear. You want to do whatever it takes to bring in an income again. If you are employed, you have the
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Sumitting Your Poetry for Publication
Submitting your poetry, either to a contest or for direct publication, is a relatively painless process. Once you’ve done it a few times and have your basic cover letter written, it will only take a couple of minutes to prepare your work for submission. Just remember that no matter what other guidelines I offer, the
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Write a poem that uses exactly the same number of characters on every line
Editing a poem is in many ways like editing any other work of writing. The central goal is to eliminate any errors you have made, to improve on words and passages that aren’t quite as good as they could be, and to work to make the poem hold together as a single unit. You would
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One Blogger, Many Roles
I am a blogger As a blogger, I keep and update a blog. I do it as a business. Because of this, I have many other roles besides blogger. I am a writer I write just about every day of the year. If I am not writing for my own blog, I am writing for
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A Career in Technical Writing: Life as a newbie
Bullet points Struggling to make the wrong tool work for a job can add months to a project FrameMaker is good for long technical documents PageMaker is good for sending a newsletter to your Aunt Fanny Sometimes the most important thing a technical writer can do is gather information When expectations are sufficiently low, it’s
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Guest Blogger Prize Winners
Before I prattle on about the contest let me just announce the winners: Most Page Views — $250 Lillie Ammann, author of Get Rid of Ugly Wordiness: How to Cut Your Novel Down to Size Random Drawing — $50 David Jace, author of Writing as a God As many of you know, June was guest
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Include the word right or rights in your poem
As you near the end of PD30, you may be wondering what to do with all of the poems you have written. You can submit them to contests and publications, or course. You can also create a chapbook. Chapbooks are very common among self-publishing poets and small presses because they are both easy to create
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