Monthly Archives: April 2012

Sonnet Building Step 5: “Final Dress”

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Annie Neugebauer

[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 →

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Sonnet Building Step 4: “Muscle Sculpting”

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Annie Neugebauer

[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 →

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Fear, Pain, and Writing

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Annie Neugebauer

I am so honored today to be hosted at Fear of Writing by the lovely Milli Thornton. The post, “Facing My Fear of Writing Through Pain,” is a follow-up to the post “Writing Through Pain” that I wrote last year … Continue reading →

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Sonnet Building Step 3: “Filling out the Flesh”

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Annie Neugebauer

[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 →

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Sonnet Building Step 2: “Structuring a Skeleton”

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Annie Neugebauer

[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 →

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