I write fairly decent poetry. It’s better than my prose anyway. Therefore I have the audacity to set out some poetry rules. Here goes. Poetry does NOT have to rhyme. Even if you write lyrical poetry. I’d go as far as to say rhymes can make your poem sound phony. (Been there.) There are NO limits to the length of a poem. It can be three lines or three hundred

Some people think you shouldn’t choose a genre just because it’s popular and has a large audience. First, I’d like to say that haters gonna hate – people don’t want others to make more money than themselves and that’s why they don’t recommend choosing a lucrative genre. Second, there’s some truth what they’re saying. You see, if you choose your genre based on what’s popular, you might neglect a genre

About ten years ago I read in the blog of one aspiring writer that if you want to be a writer, you should write every day. I hated her immediately. She seemed to think she knew how to be a writer, and that she was an authority at said venture – that she could say anything about being a writer and because she said it, it would be the ultimate

Unpopular opinion: every writer needs a workspace. I don’t mean you need an office, or that you need to to work in the same space every day, or that you are unable to work sitting in your bed. What I mean is that every writer needs to move from their living space to a physically different space to work consistently. Your workspace is the place where you’re allowed to work