If You Get Sick, or Get Bored, or It is Raining
Learn by Listening
Sure, I read poetry. But I prefer to have it read to me. That, and I’m a Hank Williams fan1, and Tom Hiddleston played Williams in the biopic.
Kick back. Close your eyes and enjoy. Or not. Try listening to poetry before you write, or as you make notes. See if it doesn’t improve the rhythm and wording of your own storytelling.
P.s. It is raining and gusting like all-get-out, here. Just lit the first fire of the year in the wood stove.
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Rabid. A rabid fan.
Consider that all good writing is a distortion of language. Song lyrics are. Poetry is. Play writing certainly is -- as demonstrated by Suddenly, Last Summer. It's repetition and alliteration and stuff. But we expect "good" writing to be always correct. Please look at poetry and how it warps language for effect.
Poetry is like a penis you don’t want see or feel… but sometimes you do.