Sudden Fiction Poetry Techniques

Today's Lesson For Sudden Fiction Poetry

Today I'm going to move away from the literary techniques and the kind of vocabulary necessary to create compelling sudden fiction poetry and discuss mind set and concept ideas (or rather how to gain concept ideas).

Sudden fiction poetry is an art and not a science and can not be forced it must be gently coaxed out. This is one such method that has proved useful to myself and others. Unfortuneatley there is no single method that helps everyone and if this method works for you then you can apply it to a lot more than just sudden fiction and poetry. Often overthinking something merely causes brain jam and in my experience it's far more helpful to not think at all and retreat to a meditative state and allow the answers to come from within.

First you need to read this through and then practise the steps I lay out.

Okay to begin go and sit at a desk and get comfortable, have some paper and a pen in front of you.

Just as soon as your ready recognise your breathing and take control. Breather deeply and slowly and allow your body to relax and only think and focus on your breathing.

Close your eyes and maintain your breathing with a pause between each In and Out.

Now I want you to imagine you are a famous and powerful poet. Focus on how success feels and how easy it is for words to come to you and play with those words. This is your talent and your moment.

Keep breathing.

Now the trick at this stage is to go into almost a trance and not to think and take your time. There is only now and this moment and it will last forever. Never rush and force ideas or words into your mind.

In this relaxed state of almost non thought allow your mind to wander. This is really difficult, you must be aware of where your mind is taking you without thinking, focusing and interacting with your imagination in anyway.

When you feel incredibly calm open your eyes and simply allow words to come out of the silence of your mind and play with them, mold them.

The purpose to this is to find a sentence or two that fit together perfectly within your mind (that are almost poetical). Start writing down different sentences and words that fit together. After 15 minutes of doing this read through all you have written.

If today is a good inspiration day for you several of your best sentences will probably be fit in the same theme. Now you need to try to generate a scene in your head, where is the sentence from? Ancient Greece? New York? Try to get a sense of time and place or surrounding. Does one sentence lead to another? Have you tapped into your flow?

Try writing a paragraph that around your sentence and experiment with words. This is all about creating a sense of presence and feeling on the page so be really descriptive. If some thing's hurt it's wounded or desecrated. Your telling a story, painting a picture so you have to exaggerate what's in your mind with powerful words to recreate a similar image in the readers mind.

If this is difficult or impossible don't panic this is just a method I use to warm me up to write and find new and exciting concepts and even for people seasoned with this method you will not find or create great work daily.

Also never throw away your rough work, you'll be surprised how many times you'll come back to something in a few months time and read old work and just come up with the next line.

If you struggle with the visualisation try it with something your passionate about doing. I really enjoy freerunning. So when I want to try to write new sudden fiction poetry sometimes I visualise me freerunning and I try to remember and recreate the stillness in my mind when I'm in flow (in flow is when, in sports or some other activity, you have one of those spells or days when you're on form and everything works, notice on those days you don't think about what you're doing or trying to do, you just do it).

Most importantly of all, I don't know anyone who's good at writing who doesn't have a great love for reading and wordplay. Writing is a passion and a form of self expression and this is perhaps even more true to poetry and sudden fiction poetry as often the level of emotion put into the work is so strong it becomes very personal.

Sudden fiction poetry should be a joy to write and not a chore and as forementioned you need to have that fire burning inside you that makes you want to write and share with others. And that's pretty much how me and my associates try to get `divine` inspiration and believe me I know it's a lot easier to tell you how to do it than do it, but even if you only get a really good groove once a month it could still be enough to write some excellent Sudden Fiction Poetry.