1: Ted Hughes 'Poetry in the Making', 1967
Hughes describes how he hunts and captures thoughts and feelings in words. This requires
All of this is sometimes helped by
Allowing TIME and not proceeding by FORMULA is a sentiment explored and echoed of many NWP writing group conversations.
- holding them long enough for the mind to truly examine them
- exploring them sensorily
- respecting their language - rather than what you think you ought to say
- inhabiting their rhythms and images
- concentrating hard while the imagination works
All of this is sometimes helped by
- choosing a subject
- allowing thinking time
- setting time limits
- writing in lines of thoughts, not sentences
Allowing TIME and not proceeding by FORMULA is a sentiment explored and echoed of many NWP writing group conversations.