It was lovely to welcome new member Jasmine to our Young Writers session last Saturday! And great to see the Regulars getting stuck in with the topic which was Non-Rhyming Poems. We haven't actually covered this as a subject in its own right before - although we touched on it when we did Free Verse a few months back. I explained that snatching sentences out of the air and stringing them together is a good way to create a non-rhyme poem. I suggested something along the lines of Fish in a pond, a day at the zoo as a good way to open such a verse, concluding it with Busy day out with Auntie Joan as a means to tying it in. Thus:
fish in the pond
a day at the zoo
busy day out
with Auntie Joan
is a perfectly good example of non-rhyming poetry.
After overcoming the restraints of syllable counting with Haiku and Tanka in recent sessions, once the Young Writers grasped the concept of practically anything goes, they were, as usual, soon coming up with some cracking poetry - some of which will appear in the next AYW - ok issue.
It is this constant eagerness and being willing to try anything in the world of Creative Writing that so thrills and excites me about these young writers. They truly love to write; they are passionate about it and that is what it is all about of course! One day I am going to put all this into a book to encourage others to start similar groups - and that book will be dedicated to every single AYW member, past present and future. They are the lifeblood of this group and I am so proud of them!
We will be going back to writing comic strips for the next couple of sessions. This subject is back by popular demand and I think there's only a couple of members who were here when we tackled it last time so, for most, it will be another new experience.
The next session will be on 13th February so please come along - I look forward to seeing you there.
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