With National Poetry Writing Month well underway, it seems that everyone everywhere is sending prompts and writing poetry, or indeed finding ways to inspire others to do so! Therefore, today’s poem doesn’t, this time, come from a NaPoWriMo prompt (as might be expected) but instead from a prompt sent to me via the WordXWord Festival’s…
Day Five’s NaPoWriMo prompt is a small, yet effective one – to write a cinquain; a poem that employs stanzas with five lines… sounds easy, right? Well, it is, except each line has a particular number of stresses and syllables per line – working with a 1-2-3-4-1 stress formation and with 2-4-6-8-2 syllable pattern –…
Choices. Like that first page of your favourite fairy-tale, the one hidden long in Aesop’s Fables about ‘The Ant and the Grasshopper’, you can only read the image back so far: over – and over, but the words won’t change and it is up to you, to move your world on. Like a drawer in the…
My Hand. You are happiness. Happiness is Success – Success doesn’t necessarily have to be of the money-making kind. To be kind is to pass one’s passion onto others, but passion is what happens when we fall in love. One day, that love will make a career, and this career might lead to a name…
Today’s post comes courtesy of Margret Geraghty’s book, The Five Minute Writer, a birthday present from one Miss Grace Carter. Geraghty’s book aims to inspire her readers to write with mini discussions and five minute exercises, aiming to get those creative juices flowing, and here is my rough draft after a first trial-dive into it… This is called…
Dr Sophie-Louise Hyde is a poet, writing tutor and entrepreneur based in the East Midlands.
She has an MA in Creative Writing from Loughborough University and completed her PhD in September 2016.
She now works at the university full-time, supporting students and graduates on their own businesses journeys.
