Danica Swanson
@danicaswanson
"Good writing isnβt about studying how great essays or poems look and then figuring out how to reverse engineer that (though thatβs part of it). Rather, itβs about learning how to pay close attention to your thoughts and feelings and the concrete materiality of the world, and mastering the craft so you can translate what you see onto the page." ~ Henrik Karlsson
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Sine
@sinusoidalsnail
For awhile, I was writing a haiku almost every day on here. And writing many more in my brain. Haikus taught me EXACTLY this concept! I'd just go on my walks, and pay attention to what I saw. The 17-syllable rhythm was stuck in my head, like how songs get stuck in your head. And the poems just wrote themselves, as I looked at things and thought about what they meant. Like translating between the language of concrete objects, and thoughts/feelings/meaning. It also improved my writing for my job, despite that type of writing being completely opposite of writing poetry.
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Danica Swanson
@danicaswanson
I remember seeing and enjoying those haikus you wrote! Are the haikus only readable through your cast history in the purple app, or did you also publish them elsewhere? Makes sense that you'd start thinking in haiku rhythm and that your skill improvements would carry over to the rest of your life in other ways. That's one of the great joys of writing.
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Sine
@sinusoidalsnail
Thank you very much! I minted a few of the least personal ones. But otherwise, they are just on here. I deleted some of the most personal ones from here. But Iβve saved all of them in a document elsewhere
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