Annie is a novelist, blogger, nationally award-winning poet, and two-time Bram Stoker Award-nominated short story author.
Category Archives: Advice for Poets
Titling Poems
Is your poetry folder chock-full of files called “Untitled 1,” “Untitled 2,” and so on? You’d think that if we poets can find inspiration, import meaning, write a poem, revise it, and polish it, that we’d be able to slap … Continue reading
Sonnet Building Step 5: “Final Dress”
[If sonnets just aren’t your cup of tea, check out the related prose discussion below.] Critique Sonneteers! At this point, you’ve done everything you can on your own to make your sonnet shine. The next step, if you’re up to … Continue reading
Sonnet Building Step 4: “Muscle Sculpting”
[Just here for the prose talk? Click here to skip down.] Hello sonneteers! How are you guys? Doing okay? Where is everybody in the process? Judging from both the crickets in the comments and a few of you that I’ve … Continue reading
Sonnet Building Step 3: “Filling out the Flesh”
[Prosers, click here if you want to skip down to the prose part.] Fellow sonneteers! So far we have come up with our ideas, jotted down our thoughts, and given our poems a framework. Now comes the inevitable. It is time … Continue reading
Sonnet Building Step 2: “Structuring a Skeleton”
[Not feeling the sonnet stuff? Skip to the prose discussion. ] Now that you have gathered the DNA for your sonnet, it’s time to connect the knee bone to the thigh bone, so to speak. But before you get all … Continue reading