Creative Writing For A Compelling Read
One of the keys to successful poetry writing is finding the right words or phrases that will captivate the reader's attention from beginning to end...and leave the reader with a sense that they want to come back for more.
By the very nature of poetry's structure each piece is comparatively short and the writer must therefore find a way to create a mood and inject sufficient dynamics into each poem to capture the reader's attention and retain it for the duration of reading the piece. If the opening stanza doesn't appeal and create a sense of wonderment or curiosity in the reader's mind you've lost them.
Much like advertising, writing, whatever the genre, must grasp the reader's attention right from the start and hold their interest through to the end of the piece and give a sense that they want to see more. The reader needs a sense of what the poem is about, where it's going, and where it will take them. Like a good journalistic piece, poetry must contain the W-5's to satisfy the reading experience.
To succeed in creative writing there has to be an element of uniqueness. Give the reader something out of the ordinary, something they haven't read a million times before. Invision your piece from a different perspective and illustrate that clearly from the outset. A pleasant walk in the meadow has been done infinitum but if the reader gets a glimpse at what is experienced during that walk along the meadow, something unique that other writers may not have touched on, then you're onto something good.
The use of powerful descriptive words that will ignite the reader's senses will bring the piece to life. Take a look at the following piece that I wrote on this topic. Watch for the key words that give this poem life:
A MEADOW SONG
Alone with my thoughts in a meadow walk, sauntering lazily, hearing meadow songs.
Tall grasses dance to a valley breeze
Fragrant, inviting, tranquility there
A bumblebee hovers, then swiftly gone
Cattle stand grazing, my presence ignored
A pasture lined with serpentine oak
Statues of nature, limbs heavenward reach
The farmhand labours tilling the soil
A plot for the garden and wheat fields grow
Whispy clouds sweep a powder blue sky
Bathed in sunshine, an artist's dream
Splendour on canvass, a stroke of the brush
Sweet sounds of summer, a meadow song
Copyright 2004 by Don MacIver
This piece generated considerable reaction because it tweeked readers' sense of recall of just such an experience they had enjoyed, whether recent or in the distant past (or would like to experience some day). They longed to relive the moment...and did so in this verse.
The power of descriptive wording cannot be underestimated...it is the lifeblood of writing that sets it apart from the rest, gives it that something special, that unique quality that the enjoyment of poetry is all about.
Examples of my writing can be found at http://www.poetryvine.com/apoetsview
Don MacIver
author, Journeys In Verse
By the very nature of poetry's structure each piece is comparatively short and the writer must therefore find a way to create a mood and inject sufficient dynamics into each poem to capture the reader's attention and retain it for the duration of reading the piece. If the opening stanza doesn't appeal and create a sense of wonderment or curiosity in the reader's mind you've lost them.
Much like advertising, writing, whatever the genre, must grasp the reader's attention right from the start and hold their interest through to the end of the piece and give a sense that they want to see more. The reader needs a sense of what the poem is about, where it's going, and where it will take them. Like a good journalistic piece, poetry must contain the W-5's to satisfy the reading experience.
To succeed in creative writing there has to be an element of uniqueness. Give the reader something out of the ordinary, something they haven't read a million times before. Invision your piece from a different perspective and illustrate that clearly from the outset. A pleasant walk in the meadow has been done infinitum but if the reader gets a glimpse at what is experienced during that walk along the meadow, something unique that other writers may not have touched on, then you're onto something good.
The use of powerful descriptive words that will ignite the reader's senses will bring the piece to life. Take a look at the following piece that I wrote on this topic. Watch for the key words that give this poem life:
A MEADOW SONG
Alone with my thoughts in a meadow walk, sauntering lazily, hearing meadow songs.
Tall grasses dance to a valley breeze
Fragrant, inviting, tranquility there
A bumblebee hovers, then swiftly gone
Cattle stand grazing, my presence ignored
A pasture lined with serpentine oak
Statues of nature, limbs heavenward reach
The farmhand labours tilling the soil
A plot for the garden and wheat fields grow
Whispy clouds sweep a powder blue sky
Bathed in sunshine, an artist's dream
Splendour on canvass, a stroke of the brush
Sweet sounds of summer, a meadow song
Copyright 2004 by Don MacIver
This piece generated considerable reaction because it tweeked readers' sense of recall of just such an experience they had enjoyed, whether recent or in the distant past (or would like to experience some day). They longed to relive the moment...and did so in this verse.
The power of descriptive wording cannot be underestimated...it is the lifeblood of writing that sets it apart from the rest, gives it that something special, that unique quality that the enjoyment of poetry is all about.
Examples of my writing can be found at http://www.poetryvine.com/apoetsview
Don MacIver
author, Journeys In Verse
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