Yes. Very good sense. The problem with learning about writing is that it can become contrary to actually doing any.
It took me about four years to get from my first attempts at poetry to the kind of quality that I now require of myself as a matter of course, and for me the hardest thing was to maintain perfect rhyme over a really long poem. No formal education was involved at any point (though I did have a quite fantastic critic), but I did write over 100,000 words of poetry, and revise the lot at least three times.
There are relatively few female poets to be found that have really made a mark, but my own favourite poet of any kind is Christina Georgina Rossetti. If anything I write more like her than anyone else, too.
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Date: 2008-12-10 02:50 am (UTC)It took me about four years to get from my first attempts at poetry to the kind of quality that I now require of myself as a matter of course, and for me the hardest thing was to maintain perfect rhyme over a really long poem. No formal education was involved at any point (though I did have a quite fantastic critic), but I did write over 100,000 words of poetry, and revise the lot at least three times.
There are relatively few female poets to be found that have really made a mark, but my own favourite poet of any kind is Christina Georgina Rossetti. If anything I write more like her than anyone else, too.