Food For Thought: What is a Dramatic Monologue?

In this blog, we’ll explore the origins and definitions of the Dramatic Monologue—where it came from and how it came to be—with a few tips and ideas to start you writing your own. The ‘Dramatic Monologue’ has existed for a good few centuries now. It was in the early 19th century that the form, asContinue reading “Food For Thought: What is a Dramatic Monologue?”

Food For Thought: Ideas For Redrafting Your Poetry

The process of writing a poem is very rarely as simple as making a first draft and then publishing it. Re-drafting is an important subject because poets must do such a lot of it. Before a poem is published, there’s always a sequence of drafts. It’s very difficult to know where to start the re-draftingContinue reading “Food For Thought: Ideas For Redrafting Your Poetry”