Before I attended in person creative writing courses I used to express my thoughts, feelings & opinions poetically. My creative writing tutor told me that writing wasn't about expressing thoughts, feelings, & opinions but telling stories, sharing memories & scattering words on a page. (I stopped expressing feelings through writing for so long. Now, I've started again but not gushed.) Thinking about it, I'd say that writing was about recording facts & figures, what you know as well as what you remember & what you think & feel maybe in an elegant way. What do you think?
He also said that poems either had to just be words scattered on a page or be written in iambic pentameter. Not all rhyming poems are written in iambic pentameter. Not all of the best rhyming poems are written in iambic pentameter either. (I was challenged to write a poem in iambic pentameter. I haven't managed it yet. Only 10 syllables on each line. I can't do it.)
He also said metaphor & simile were the best ways of using imagery as well as calling a spade a spade. I like metaphor & simile but I also like beautiful descriptions & using symbolism in my works. He was against emotive language which I think is something necessary.
(I didn't believe all he said. I completed the writing exercises he set & believed everything he said that didn't go against what I already knew or what I didn't already know. He appeared to be into the new way of writing *expecting everything to be kept simple* rather than the classical way of writing.)
What do you think?
He also said that poems either had to just be words scattered on a page or be written in iambic pentameter. Not all rhyming poems are written in iambic pentameter. Not all of the best rhyming poems are written in iambic pentameter either. (I was challenged to write a poem in iambic pentameter. I haven't managed it yet. Only 10 syllables on each line. I can't do it.)
He also said metaphor & simile were the best ways of using imagery as well as calling a spade a spade. I like metaphor & simile but I also like beautiful descriptions & using symbolism in my works. He was against emotive language which I think is something necessary.
(I didn't believe all he said. I completed the writing exercises he set & believed everything he said that didn't go against what I already knew or what I didn't already know. He appeared to be into the new way of writing *expecting everything to be kept simple* rather than the classical way of writing.)
What do you think?
