Writing up and cutting down is one way to do that.
Another is to jot down just the important ideas you want to include, sort them into a logical order, and then fill in the rest of the poem around them. Even in haiku, you usually need at least a few filler words to make the grammar work properly.
Re: Prompts
Date: 2016-08-21 08:21 pm (UTC)Another is to jot down just the important ideas you want to include, sort them into a logical order, and then fill in the rest of the poem around them. Even in haiku, you usually need at least a few filler words to make the grammar work properly.