About the Group

First things first - the aim of this writing group is to provide a group experience but from home.
It is a group for anybody who writes - whether it is poetry, short stories etc etc - but perhaps there isn't a group that they are able to get to, or perhaps they would like the group experience without having to read aloud to a group!!
So that is what this group is really about - it is a group for people who don't always want to walk into a stranger-filled room in a pub or library in order to be part of a writing group!
Here you will find triggers to get you started if you are having writer's block, ideas for web sites you might enjoy and most of all an appreciative audience with which you can share your work if you want to - your writing will be shared on this site if you want it to be, thus leaving room for others to comment on it and maybe give you ideas for future pieces.
You can send one piece or several, however there may not be room to publish everything if you send loads, so perhaps a bit at a time would be easier.
The email address to send submissions is on the right!
Ann

Thursday, 27 August 2009

Jane McKie

I came across this poet while researching something else and I have to say I was very impressed with the way she writes.

Freak Phenomena

Siphoned from their beds,
periwinkles crack open
on Beijing pavements;


storm-addled tadpoles
carpet downtown Kolkata;
red ants rain on Bonn.


Loose tongues spread the news:
the Second Coming, world's end!
But what harbingers —


tiny, untarnished.

Jane McKie © 2009
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This online poetry magazine site is useful -

http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/
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Saturday, 15 August 2009

Poetry Writing Hints








TIP

When writing anything, if you don't know where you are going how can you get there?

Top 10 Tips for Poetry Writing
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Thursday, 13 August 2009

Triggers

Ok - straight down to business - triggers.
A trigger being something that is designed to help you start writing if you are in a bit of a block, here are a few ideas from Trevor, a creative writing tutor friend of mine:


1. Catastrophe of nature - the earth moves backwards, the seasons change drastically, night and day are confused and much else. Describe a city scene under such challenges.
Keep it tight - no wasted or redundant words. Make it imagistic.

2. You've just established a world utopia - write a poem showing how people are coping with the changes you've implemented.

3. Write a none specific sensuous poem.
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