Author Archives: Annie Neugebauer
Fear, Pain, and Writing
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
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
Sonnet Building Step 1: “Gathering DNA”
The very first thing you must do before you sit down to write a sonnet is find an idea worth writing about. Trying to write a sonnet with no initial concept is pretty much guaranteed to give you a dull, … Continue reading
Intro to Sonnet Building 101
So, five people expressed interest in participating in a step-by-step sonnet writing series here on the blog. I was a little torn by that, to be honest. It wasn’t as many people as I hoped, but it was enough that I … Continue reading




