The Incendiary Lit Heroic Crown Affair Day 7
Day 7 should be a day of smooth cruising. Either you have an idea already plotted out from your wonderful organizational chart, or you have a free verse base poem which you can apply the same rhyming techniques as suggested in Day 6. If you’re having problems see the last couple day’s suggestions.
If those aren’t working, go outside for half an hour. Breathe through your nose and smell the air. Try to pick apart the different smells. If you’re unsure, pick one and pretend you’re sure. Feel your feet scraping on the ground. The texture, the sound, the feeling of vibration. Look at the sky, the blue, black or grey, the clouds and birds and airplanes. Notice patterns in formation, in wildflowers or patches of crab-grass. Get outside of your head for awhile. Sometimes that helps. Spend half an hour observing as many sensory details as you can. Touch the stucco wall, sniff the dirty microwave. Taste the air of your surroundings and dissect it on your palate. Cleanse your mind for half an hour of anything work/school/sonnet-related and remember the details that you’re trying to explain, remember the experience of living. Then get back to the rhymes and syllabics/metrics or the possible poem perspectives. Consider other writers, their perspective, or famous thinkers, or perhaps better yet, unfamous thinkers. Consider what you haven’t considered, despite their silliness. Keep going.