by admin | Apr 3, 2021 | Devotions, Encouragement, Mechanics/ Writing Craft, Poetry
©2021 Catherine Posey Poetry is a unique portrayal of an author’s emotions and thoughts—a means for a writer to put their feelings down on paper. As a young teenager and throughout my life, I often released my pent-up sentiment by writing a poem. I would extend every...
by admin | Jun 2, 2020 | Anthologies, Editing, Encouragement, General, Mechanics/ Writing Craft, Nonfiction, Poetry
© 2020 Tracy Crump Chicken Soup for the Soul callouts have been the bedrock of our newsletter since we began in 2008. I can’t thank Amy Newmark, author, editor-in-chief, and publisher of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, enough for connecting with me recently and...
by admin | May 1, 2020 | Encouragement, General, Interviews, Mechanics/ Writing Craft, Nonfiction, Poetry
© 2020 Tracy Crump What a treat to interview Amy Newmark, author, editor-in-chief, and publisher of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series! Marylane and I started this newsletter with just nine subscribers at our first Chicken Soup for the Soul workshop in 2008—the same...
by admin | Jun 3, 2018 | General, Mechanics/ Writing Craft, Poetry
© 2018 Abby Mannion Spoken word poetry is a unique and rising art form. Its style and presentation lies somewhere between poetry and rap, and because it truly stands as a separate category, there are different characteristics that apply to it. I have been writing...
by admin | May 4, 2015 | Encouragement, General, Mechanics/ Writing Craft, Poetry
© 2015 Lora Homan Zill An intuitive “feel” for the music in language makes us human. The sounds of words form the background hum of our lives and can also stick out as attention-getters. Marketers know this when crafting headlines, such as the travel agency...
