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Make your language new and strange

Last updated on April 3, 2026

A way to Resist-narrative-when-drafting-poems is to focus on the language. Make it strange, make it weird, make it different. Play around with metaphor and similies. Vary-sentence-length and vary-sentence-syntax

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Vary sentence syntax
When writing, it is important to [[make-your-language-new-and-strange]]. One way to do this is to [[Vary-sentence-length]] but it is also important...


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