Writing poetry has never really paid well to earn a significant living and I believe personally a “poet” never should write for the sole sake of money. what I do see often though is most writers or poets stay within an all too familiar comfort zone of repetitive writing. a good writer and poet should write about what they know but extending those limits a bit further as much as they can broadens the mind set of creativity. POETS.ORG is a great site that teaches all the different poetic forms and techniques and is a great help to making your poetry better. POETSMARKET.COM is a site for contact information for market listings and poetry contests , etc. That’s a site for the hopeless die-hard poet in the interests of actually earning that comfortable living no other poet since the big boom has been able to claim. I’ve read several great articles on here about how to make your poetry better or what writing tools you need for that first novel and they all list sound advice. So this is an out of the comfort realm attempt at writing an informative piece for other truly passionate writers and poets looking to expand the inner muse.

While at the same time lending a helping hand in unison on the cluttered issue of “same article different writer” and joining the we all mean well support group of Triond writers. Anyway , what I’ve read and wanted to stress about is the guidelines of good poetry and bad poetry. Again , the majority of these articles however may list some good advice and plug certain Internet sites for further help to other writers but also almost always throw their opinions (mine included) into the melting pot. Now in my opinion I try to stray to believe in good versus bad writing as every one’s creative principle is entirely different from that of the readers likes and dislikes. No matter how some or most of us do actually write similarly , the creative genus is born uniquely in each and every solitary writer’s mind.  There’s also a site called spacejock.com in which they have a program called yWriter5. This is a free download specifically to help ease into writing that first novel everyone at some point dreams about. It’s designed to help organize and file your chapters , scenes , rough drafts , character background , etc. without disrupting or losing the creative edge you’re occupied in at that moment.

Another more rounded program for writers and poets is on the site softpedia.com. It’s called Rough Draft 3.0 and is as well a  free download-able program which more resembles Microsoft’s word pad but does present more features including instant backup of all open files to other devices as well as providing a less turbulent distraction for that illicit creative process to ignite in the brain wires of  thriving passionate writers alike.  In the midst of searching Internet site upon Internet site for varied opinions people spew forth about how they came to write their first novel , I came across another article titled  “5 reasons why you shouldn’t write a book”. Once again criticism in my opinion breeds better writers depending on how you view it. However , something about that article didn’t agree with my beliefs so I decided to read it with an open mind and ponder the writer’s thoughts as to why they would preach a “quit before you even start” kind of assumptive attitude. It did validate crucial points and broke down the somewhat offhand percentage of how many complete a novel from start to finish. the estimate percentage according to this article was , to quote directly , “out of a 100 people who start a novel , only 3 will ever actually complete it”. Sounds realistically harsh but ironically true and my philosophy has always been to exercise and build your writing stamina like a body builder would build their physique. It’s work. Write Write Write. “If you have a passion in it then you’ll never work a day in your life”. Good luck to writers of all kinds and I hope this helped a bit as much as some of this continues to help me