Sudden Fiction Poetry: Piece 2
Never Ending War
An eerie half crescent glow stretches and meanders intermittingly across the sanguine horizon, blossoming a false hope to those vile creatures who bask in the light.
This unclean spoil is like that of shadow under day, a stark reminder of that which exists beyond the other. As battle rages on for evermore, this sickening stale mate drives the wicked to exile at day break.
Woe the power of light, holy father of Dark, muster your almighty power and achieve true victory and release us to conquer and devour all.
But for now be fleet of foot my children for time is short as night turns to day...
Showing posts with label sudden fiction poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sudden fiction poetry. Show all posts
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Tuesday, 3 November 2009
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.
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.
Monday, 2 November 2009
Sudden Fiction Poetry: Piece 1
Example of Sudden Fiction
This is one of my pieces originally created in 2002 and was last modified to this final draft on the 16/05/2009. Here I choose to take vampirism as my subject. The lay out is unconventional but creates the necessary pause to accumulate suspense
Dark Angel
He who regrets nothing......
Condemned to eternal torment......
He who owns no soul or conscience......
He kills like the indiscriminate Gods of the mortals and in this he finds his release, a peace so pure, lost to the ages.
He no longer takes life to merely survive or know peace. No now he hunts for pleasure, for the exhilarating thrill......
The prick of anticipation as their heart sets into that jerky rhythm......To see them paralyzed within fears cold relentless grasp.
He toys with them now, such simple beasts!
Until the perfect moment arises, then...... a quick flash, the strike is made...... and they sink back to the earth from whence they came.
16/05/2009. All works originally written by Gary Crow, creator and author of these works. All
Rights Reserved
Here you can see that sudden fiction can really resemble the start of a short story but it is far more poetical and descriptive. Despite only being a short piece if you read it with the appropriate pauses a vivid context of a vampire hunting his prey and his mind set and emotion of the moment. All of this is done in sudden fiction by triggering a greater sense of moment by provoking emotion within the reader which will create a complete scene within a very condensed amount of writing.
This is one of my pieces originally created in 2002 and was last modified to this final draft on the 16/05/2009. Here I choose to take vampirism as my subject. The lay out is unconventional but creates the necessary pause to accumulate suspense
Dark Angel
He who regrets nothing......
Condemned to eternal torment......
He who owns no soul or conscience......
He kills like the indiscriminate Gods of the mortals and in this he finds his release, a peace so pure, lost to the ages.
He no longer takes life to merely survive or know peace. No now he hunts for pleasure, for the exhilarating thrill......
The prick of anticipation as their heart sets into that jerky rhythm......To see them paralyzed within fears cold relentless grasp.
He toys with them now, such simple beasts!
Until the perfect moment arises, then...... a quick flash, the strike is made...... and they sink back to the earth from whence they came.
16/05/2009. All works originally written by Gary Crow, creator and author of these works. All
Rights Reserved
Here you can see that sudden fiction can really resemble the start of a short story but it is far more poetical and descriptive. Despite only being a short piece if you read it with the appropriate pauses a vivid context of a vampire hunting his prey and his mind set and emotion of the moment. All of this is done in sudden fiction by triggering a greater sense of moment by provoking emotion within the reader which will create a complete scene within a very condensed amount of writing.
How to Write Sudden Fiction Poetry
Sudden Fiction: How To
Sudden fiction is all about tapping into emotive and often darker themes that the vast majority of people already have a general image and understanding of. Whether it's teenage angst, love, death, loneliness or even vampirism it is important that you can create a story and load it with good descriptive and emotive detail to generate a sense of larger content. What do I mean by this you say? Well in successful sudden fiction the reader will come away after reading a short paragraph feeling like they've read a whole page or two of work. How can this be done you say? Poetry has many techniques as does short story writing and I personally borrow from both. You need to attack your readers framework of reference so that every word they read triggers ten more and ultimately paints such a large and detailed picture in the readers mind that they gain a sense of the whole from a tiny section.
It's also about wetting your readers appetite and bombarding their imagination with powerful and flowing writing. This is the art of poetry, anyone can take love for example and list powerful words and create a short story in a paragraph but to make it flow and captivate your reader by overwhelming their imagination is the real skill here.
This is really one of the most modern and refreshing styles of poetry and really allows you to tap into creative writing in a fun and personal way. Remember all good poetry has plenty of heart and has to be open to interpretation so never give every detail and secret away.
I will be writing further creative writing and poetry guides for budding writers and expanding on the poetry and creative writing techniques you will need to master if you want to make a name for yourself. I will be sharing some of my own and original sudden fiction written back in 2002.
Sudden fiction is all about tapping into emotive and often darker themes that the vast majority of people already have a general image and understanding of. Whether it's teenage angst, love, death, loneliness or even vampirism it is important that you can create a story and load it with good descriptive and emotive detail to generate a sense of larger content. What do I mean by this you say? Well in successful sudden fiction the reader will come away after reading a short paragraph feeling like they've read a whole page or two of work. How can this be done you say? Poetry has many techniques as does short story writing and I personally borrow from both. You need to attack your readers framework of reference so that every word they read triggers ten more and ultimately paints such a large and detailed picture in the readers mind that they gain a sense of the whole from a tiny section.
It's also about wetting your readers appetite and bombarding their imagination with powerful and flowing writing. This is the art of poetry, anyone can take love for example and list powerful words and create a short story in a paragraph but to make it flow and captivate your reader by overwhelming their imagination is the real skill here.
This is really one of the most modern and refreshing styles of poetry and really allows you to tap into creative writing in a fun and personal way. Remember all good poetry has plenty of heart and has to be open to interpretation so never give every detail and secret away.
I will be writing further creative writing and poetry guides for budding writers and expanding on the poetry and creative writing techniques you will need to master if you want to make a name for yourself. I will be sharing some of my own and original sudden fiction written back in 2002.
Poetry: Sudden Fiction
Hello and welcome to my poetry page. Sudden fiction is a certain type of a short poetry that usually consists of one or two short paragraphs that are explosive in detail, emotion and description much like an incredibly short story. For me Sudden Fiction Poetry is the most modern and (when executed properly) intense forms of poetry that can be explored.
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