Part of writing poetry is choosing exactly the right word. The right word leaves your reader or listener hungry for more.
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5 Tips for Creating Fresh Blog Content
To keep customers coming back, you must maintain your site! Having a hard time coming up with new posts for your farm blog? Try these ideas.
The Poet’s Toolbox: Perspective
One of the greatest factors in the impact and effectiveness of a poem is its perspective. By this we mean subject matter, voice, and setting.
The Poet’s Toolbox: Form
Form may cover such aspects as the rhyme scheme or the number of syllables per line.
The Poet’s Toolbox: Introduction
Understanding the technical side of poetry can help us when we’re stuck in a rut or need to revise a verse for greater impact.
The Prose Poetry of Walt Mason
Although Walt Mason’s poetry is now largely forgotten except by dedicated history buffs, in his own day “Uncle Walt” was the most widely read poet in America.
7 Cold-Weather Country Living Projects
Looking for something to do indoors on those cold, cloudy days of winter? Put that time to good use with one of these projects: Set goals for the new year. And schedule time to work on them. When pursuing an objective that requires a long-term commitment, writing down your goal is the first step to […]
5 Tips for Improving Your Writing
Writing is a valuable communication skill, no matter what we do in life. Just to name a few of the uses a small farmer might have for writing: Writing posts and pages for an agripreneurial website. Blogging about country living. Writing a how-to book for future generations of farmers. Writing a business letter. Keeping a […]
5 Handy Resources for Writers
Every writer has a preferred modus operandi, including diverse details such as when we write, where we write, and what we use to write. For those of you who write in a research-intensive style or genre, here are a few tools that can make your life easier: Microsoft OneNote. And its equivalent, Evernote. You will […]
Zotero
If you have ever tried to compile a bibliography by hand, you know that it is not an easy task, even with a small bibliography. Zotero (zoh-TAIR-oh) offers a free, simple, and effective solution to all of you writers out there. Zotero allows users to compile collections of research material: Blog posts. Books. Conference papers. […]