Description:
How do we express powerful emotions with falling into sentimentality? How can we communicate an importunate truth without lapsing into slogans and clichés? What is originality and how do we know when we have strayed into derivative, rehashed, or imitative writing?

This workshop will feature a discussion leading to each participant choosing a set of emotions and/or ideas they want to express and a strategy for communicating them in an original way.

Stage one, a general discussion about the effective and ineffective ways of writing emotions and ideas in an original way.

Stage two, we’ll talk about things we want to express and difficulties we have had expressing them in the past, citing a specific poem and we will give each other feedback with suggestions for overcoming those difficulties.

Stage three, we will write a poem attempting to tackle these ideas/emotions in an original way, with little consideration for form or structure, except as it directly contributes to the idea/emotion/originality.

Leaders: Jess [weirdelf] and Ron [BlueDemon77]

Moderator(s):

Objectives: To develop original and authentic approaches to expressing emotions and ideas.

Level of expertise: Open to all

Subject matter: Emotions, ideas, originality...