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Response writing is an wonderful way to get yourself writing, and can have an immediacy about it that other types of writing do not. However the most common way to […]

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Exercises

Serenity

Serenity and peace of mind, the zen and all composure. What gives you a sense of serenity? Do you have a calming meditation? Or are you a Firefly fan? Think […]

Exercises

Verbosity

As a writer you may well suffer from verbosity or verbal diarrhea! Normally in poetry we are trying not to be overly verbose but in this case it maybe fun […]

Exercises

Sincerity

Sincerity is a good word for poets to take notice of. Be honest with your writing even if it brutal or insipid or something you feel anxiety over sharing, remember […]

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Happy Birthday WoPo!

This year marks the 5th year that WoPoWriMo has existed as a poetry writing challenge and we are celebrating! As you can tell by our birthday tea! There will be […]

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A beginning…

So WoPoWriMo begins again. A month of poetic madness. The challenge should you choose to accept it, is to write a poem a day for the month of February. Now […]

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2013 Sign Up

This year we are not using the pledge page but doing the sign up in comments if you want. So if you wish to take part in this challenge of […]

Exercises

Inspiration Jars!

After last weeks post everyone on the team made their own jars – we all really liked the way this decoupage jar turned out. You can tell it is a […]

Exercises

A Jar of Thoughts

Sometimes ideas pop into your head at the most bizar of moments and what are you to do with them? Sometimes they are no more than a sentence, a word, […]

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Happy Poetry New Year 2013!

It’s 2013 and here we go with another year of fantastic poetic license and a site brimming with writing exercises and ideas to get the creativity glands going! Our plans […]

Guest Bloggers

Angela Topping and The Muse

Since the age of 15 poetry has been my ruling passion when I found Robert Graves’ book The White Goddess in an obscure corner of the public library. I had […]