Write Better, Write Happier...

By HeyMysty

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Enjoy your writing! ☺ 2022. Help from a Watty Award-Winning Author, Wattpad Creator, and long-tenured Senior... More

Why Mysty's Book?
① ✍️ Writing Tip: How To Stay Inspired
② ✍️ Writing Tip: Notice "Was"
③ ✍️ Writing Tip: The Reader Isn't You
④ ✍️ Writing Tip: Finding the Middle Way
💚 Write Happier 💚
⑤ ✍️ Writing Tip: Show, Don't Tell
⑥ ✍️ Writing Tip: Using Descriptions as Space
⑦ ✍️Writing Tip: The Word:Idea Ratio
⑧ ✍️ Writing Tip: Double Justification
⑨ 🧡 Wattpad Tip: Gaining a Following
①⓪ 🧡 Wattpad Tip: The Truth About Feedback
①① 🧡 Wattpad Tip: Intro to Contests & The Wattys
#1 in Nonfiction - Thank You!
①② 🧡 Wattpad Tip: User Contests and Wattpad Genre Profiles
①③ 🧡 Wattpad Tip: Naver, Wattpad Stars, Studio, Etc.
①④ 🧡 Wattpad Tip: Appearances + Blurbs
①⑤ 🧡 Wattpad Tip: Cover + Title
💚 Positive Motivation - ☯︎ Yin 🌚
💚 Positive Motivation - ☯︎ Yang 🌞
①⑥ ✍️ Writing Tip: Where You Write Matters
①⑦ ✍️ Writing Tip: Editing with Basic Tips
①⑧ ✍️ Writing Tip: How to Begin a Book
①⑨ ✍️ Writing Tip: Outline Your Story
②⓪ ✍️ Writing Tip: "Said" Never Died
②① 🧡 Wattpad Tip: Chapter Length, Rankings, and Release Schedules
②② 🧡 Wattpad Tip: Keeping Up With Your Release Schedule
②③ 🧡 Wattpad Tip: Wattpad Burnout
②④ 🧡 Wattpad Tip: Your Happiness
❤️ More Help! ❤️
②⑤ 🧡 Wattpad Tip: Help Books and Advice
②⑥ ✍️ Writing Tip: Write Stronger Characters
②⑦ ✍️ Writing Tip: Write Stronger Characters ❷
②⑧ ✍️Writing Tip: Characters, A Big Entrance
②⑨ ✍️ Writing Tip: One Main Character
③⓪ ✍️ Writing Tip: POV and The Narrator
③① 🧡 Wattpad Tip: Avoid the Mature Rating
③② 🧡 Wattpad Tip: Multimedia
③③ 🧡 Wattpad Tip: Wattpad Friendships
③④ 🧡 Wattpad Tip: Dealing with People on Wattpad
💚 Meditation For Writing and Wattpad 💚
③⑤ ✍️ Writing Tip: Pacing
③⑥ ✍️ Writing Tip: Editing, and Giving Your Story Some Space
③⑦ ✍️ Writing Tip: The Art of a Paragraph
③⑧ ✍️ Writing Tip: The Semi-Colon
③⑨ ✍️ Writing Tip: The Ellipsis
④⓪ ✍️ Writing Tip: The Dash, and Read a Book!
💚 You Get Out What You Put In 💚
④① 🧡 Wattpad Help: Getting Others Involved
④② 🧡 Wattpad Help: Getting Others Involved ➋
④③ 🧡 Wattpad Help: Disclaimers, Front Matter, Warnings, etc.
④④ 🧡 Wattpad Help: Copyright
④⑤ 🧡 Wattpad Help: Mirror Sites
④⑥ 🧡 Wattpad Help: Translations
💚 It's Never the End 💚
𝘾 𝙖 𝙡 𝙢 🌼 A Pocket Guide To Breathe Easy
➋ 🌱 Bonus Seminar: The Thesaurus
➌ 🌱 Bonus Seminar: Is It Too Big?
➍ 🌱 Bonus Seminar: The Perfect Story
➎ 🌱 Bonus Seminar: Asking For Follows
➏ 🌱 Bonus Seminar: Trying to Surprise the Reader
➐ 🌱 Bonus Seminar: The Problem with Flashbacks
🧩 Bonus Advisory - You MUST Do This 🧩
➑ 🌱 Bonus Seminar: Rich Fictional Settings
➒ 🌱 Bonus Seminar: No Really, When Do I Get Readers?
➊⓿ 🌱 Bonus Seminar: Planning Your Story Saves Lives
➊➊ 🌱 Bonus Seminar: Writing Drama
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➊ 🌱 Bonus Seminar: Writing Poetry

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By HeyMysty

For those who have been around this help book a while, they know I've been pretty harsh about Wattpad poets in the past. I've been harsh with a lot of things in the past, but I've mellowed out quite a bit. I've gotten closer to right, as well.

When you write poetry, you need two things: practice and perspective. This isn't unlike writing prose. Practice is pretty self-explanatory. You need to read poetry and write poetry to get good at it.

It's great to write about yourself, how you feel, and to use poetry to explore the questions you have about life and about the world. I encourage you to explore!

However, be careful. Don't get pretentious. Don't throw around words you don't really understand. If you couldn't use the word easily in day-to-day speech, you probably shouldn't include it in your poetry. What's the point of poetry if you're using words you don't understand? How can you speak to yourself deeply this way, much less speak deeply to your audience?

And you appear foolish and possibly conceited, too. I can't tell you how often I read poetry where it is, unfortunately, very clear that the writer isn't versed in the words that they wield. You can't pass off as something you're not, and why would you want to?

Poetry isn't about using big words to wander around foggy themes. Poetry is a precision medium, which a good poet uses to connect her inner beauty to her reader's inner beauty.

Poetry that you post, like life, is not about you-you-you. And you shouldn't share poems with people using tools you don't handle deftly. If you don't know English as well as your first language, for instance, be very careful about writing in English. This goes for anyone writing in a language where your first language isn't that language. Be careful about using words you just learned in an English class or a book, to give another example.

So please, write away, but be yourself. Don't pretend to be Shakespeare or Walt Whitman or Basho. All of this goes for poetic language you might use in prose as well. Use language you truly understand, and your poetry will be ten times better for it. If you're advanced, you're advanced. If you're not, you're not. There's nothing to be ashamed about. I'd rather read a poem chock-full of emojis than read a poem with a lot of misused words, and why? Because I'll better understand it.

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