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  Noticing Newbies  1. About this Newsletter 2. A Word from our Sponsor 3. Letter from the Editor 4. Editor's Picks 5. A Word from Writing.Com 6. Ask & Answer 7. Removal instructions  Welcome to the Noticing Newbies Newsletter! Our goal is to showcase some of our newest Writing.Com Authors and their items. From poetry and stories to creative polls and interactives, we'll bring you a wide variety of items to enjoy. We will also feature "how to" advice and items that will help to jump start the creation process on Writing.com We hope all members of the site will take the time to read, rate, review and welcome our new authors. By introducing ourselves, reviewing items and reaching out, we will not only make them feel at home within our community, we just might make new friends! Your host this week:bianca_b  Passionate about writing? Take your passion to new heights - with an online Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, available only from top ranked National University. Choose workshops based on your interests. Work with experienced and published faculty. Prepare for a variety of career opportunities. Use a state-of-the art online system: Study where and when you want. Click here to get more information!  I’ll try to hook up at the subject Pita   discussed last week. Especially the point about poetry was attracting my interest…She told us last week the points she used to review poetry. I am going to focus on the writing of poetry. In fact, everyone can write a poem. If something fills your mind, you can write it down directly, not bothering about rhyme and meter. It is an emotional way of writing poetry. Mostly free verse though, where no rhyme and meter are required. Then people start to review… Some people will like what you just wrote. They will let you know that, maybe rate high. That sure is doing you good. Then a reviewer comes and this reviewer starts to talk about lack of meter, rhythm etc. Your rating is dropping, and you are confused about this comment. How do I respond on such a review? That depends. If a review is pointing me on typo’s or punctuation corrections, I usually correct them. But I usually don’t rewrite an “emotionally written poem” to add meter and rhythm in it. I take the time to explain the reviewer why I feel the poem has to stay in its form. They usually understand. What about formed poetry? Formed poetry is different. Some forms require a certain rhyme and meter. Always try to keep these guidelines. If you do, you have to approach formed poetry in the way you approach a puzzle – you have to think, to mold the words to shape them in the right form. Your satisfaction will be great if you succeed to write a form like the lilibonelle, the pantoum or the dodoitsu, to name just a few. There are so many forms to explore… And you succeeded to master the form. Then people start to review… Using Pita ’s guidelines, your reviewer will check if meter and rhyme are according the rules of the form. They count syllables when necessary. If you did it right, you’ll get a compliment. And believe me; even the most experienced poets haven’t tried out all the forms available. I found only one person in the Internet who has tried to write every possible form… her name is Jan Haag. I hope to get that far once, but it will take time to study every form, to master it. You are welcome though, to use "Invalid Item"  by A Guest Visitor as a source to guide you through the land of formed poetry. Pita asked me to place this item, with her excuses to the author for not placing it last week...
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