We worked on the creation of "fresh" or "personal" ways of expression our ideas.
We are bombarded with other people's words: on advertisements, bulletin boards, TV and the radio, from the mouths of our peers, bosses, family, politicians.
To write, you have to fight off these influences.
But how?
By looking at things. Seeing what is there.
By reading poetry. Listen to music without words.
Watch films with the sound off.
Fill your mind with images.
Do exericises -- the ________ sky The spaghetti western sky, the Cinderella sky, The Doritos sky, The Aunt Mabel Told-You-So sky etc to push you into new combinations of words.
Today: We each took an abstract noun: War, Love, Loneliness, Sorrow, Cruelty etc and we drew it and then we wrote a poem about our drawing.
Any style is possible: prose poem, list poem, narrative poem,
Add: An epigraph, a noun as an adjective, cut useless adjectives, rhyme inside and between lines instead of at the end
Title: Use your abstraction
Tomorrow we have poet and novelist, Laisha Rosnau
Here is a bio: Laisha Rosnau
Monday, Your response is due. Imitate the Larissa Horlor sample.
