Improving Your Free Verse Poetry
The most common mistakes new poets make
Many new poets are drawn to writing free verse poetry because they believe free verse really means free style, where you just write anything, anyway you feel that day and it works because the author believes its poetry without the rules, rhyme or any set style… yet this isn’t true, which is why so much free verse goes unread.
Readers want you to succeed, and will give you a small, brief chance to get them into your work, meaning when you write you must think about the overall first impression of your work along with the power of the first line. You want me, the reader, to waste my precious time reading your stuff? Then grab my attention and pull me in using known writing tactics that make me want to read this piece and everything else you might write.
Here are a few tips for your overall writing of free verse poetry, as well as a few tips that might help you specifically on Medium.
Line length and word reduction
There is no set rule to determine line length, yet it might be one of the most important tools you can apply to improve your work. The error is that most new writes use lines that are too long and don’t breath.
