Poetry & Flash Fiction with Kim Lozano
Today creative writers at GCAA talked poetry, creative nonfiction, and flash fiction with writer and creative writing teacher Kim Lozano.
Here are a couple things we discussed…
Honing our ability to see originally
Writing specifically
Avoiding vague words like “beautiful” and zeroing in on imagery
The idea that specificity & imagery apply to fiction, creative nonfiction — all types of writing
Embodying emotions in the form of objects: What can I do to show the reader that I’m angry?
Show, don’t tell is a creative writing cliché but it’s true –> learn the rules first and then break them
The power of our work is in our details
Think about gestures – for example, what a character does with their hands
Under-utilized element for a lot of poets is the title
Then we read…...