Remove obvious words
A Writing-Exercise I first encountered jn [[ Monday Night Write club ]].
Get a prompt like ‘the ocean’, then spend 5 minutes writing all the words you associate with it. For the ocean it might be wet, blue, vast etc.
Now wrote a poem without using any of the words you wrote down.
This forces you to look beyond the obvious and find new ways of describing the everyday.
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Write down words you overuse as a poet
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