Category: Writing exercises

• Beginnings: Writing a List Poem

  

  There are many new beginnings that arise throughout the cycle of the year: Winter Solstice; New Year’s Day; turning points in our personal lives that open up new doorways to walk through; voluntary change or the unexpected, thrust upon us by fate’s fingers. Here in the Northern Hemisphere, we have just passed through this year’s […]

  Roshnii Rose

  March 27, 2019

  Writing exercises

  beginning, creative writing, generating ideas, list poem, poetrt, simplicity, spring, starting

• Pantoum – Cyclical Verse

  

  Soft, soft, collapse, relax Don’t want to take care of anyone Going to crumble in a heap Let my muscles melt and fall Don’t want to take care of anyone I’m not gonna hold it together Let my muscles melt and fall Want to write, read and dream I’m not gonna hold it together Walk […]

  Roshnii Rose

  February 26, 2019

  Writing exercises

  creative writing, exercise, indonesia, malay, pantoum, poetry, verse, verse form, writing, writing exercise

• Free writing: Unearth the gems of the subconscious mind

  

  Free writing, also known as ‘flow writing’ or ‘stream of consciousness’, is, for me, one of the cornerstones of a regular writing practice. The process is simple. You set yourself a certain period of time or number of pages and write continuously for as long as you have agreed. You do not stop, pause, edit […]

  Roshnii Rose

  January 30, 2019

  Reflections, Writing exercises

  clearing, creative writing, featured, flow writing, free writing, poetry, prose, stream of consciousness, subconscious, warming up, writing, writing exercise