About John Hewitt
Welcome to the site where I post my creative work. My main site is poewar.com, I recommend that you visit it if you would like to know more about me.
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Other Articles by John Hewitt
For Fun
- 12 Ways to Write Terrible Documentation
- 10 Reasons Freelancing is for Suckers
- 10 Ways to Annoy the Hell out of your Writers’ Group
- 10 Ways to Make Editors Hate You Before They Even Know You
- 6 Ways to Tell You Were Hungry When You Wrote Your Last Short Story
- 40 Fabulous Faults of Freelance Failures
- Top 12 Signs that the Fantasy Novel You’re Working on has Gone Horribly Awry
- 15 Ways the Harry Potter Books Would Be Different if They Were Written by Bret Easton Ellis
- Writing Your Way Out of a Wet Paper Sack
- How to tell if your Project Manager is an Insane Moron
- How to Freelance for a Private Detective or a Mental Patient
- Want to Write a Novel Badly? Here’s How!
10 Days of Character Building
- 10 Days of Character Building: Defining Characters By Their Roles
- 10 Days of Character Building: A Day in the Life
- 10 Days of Character Building: Possessions
- 10 Days of Character Building: Biography
- 10 Days of Character Building: Interview
- 10 Days of Character Building: Brainstorming
- 10 Days of Character Building: Building a Character Using Multiple Perspectives
- 10 Days of Character Building: 12 Questions
- 10 Days of Character Building: Basing Characters on Real People
- 10 Days of Character Building: Character Bio Sheets
- 10 Days of Character Building: Wrap Up
Revising Your Novel
- Revising Your Novel: Performing a Light Edit
- Revising Your Novel: Read What You’ve Written
- Revising Your Novel: Creating a Chronology
- Revising Your Novel: Starting Over
- Revising Your Novel: Finding someone to read your draft
- Revising Your Novel: Editing with an eye toward continuity
- Revising Your Novel: Adding and revising scenes
- Revising Your Novel: Creating a New Roadmap
- Revising Your Novel: Creating an Information Guide (Part Two)
- Revising Your Novel: Creating an Information Guide (Part One)
- Revising Your Novel: Edit as You Read
Short Story Writing Project
- Short Story Writing Project: How to Participate
- Short Story Writing Project: Clear-cut versus obscure
- Short Story Writing Project: How do you get started?
- Short Story Writing Project: The Law of Diminishing Randomness
- Short Story Writing Project: Fleshing out your world
- Short Story Writing Project: The Second Draft
- Short Story Writing Project: Narrative Structure
- Short Story Writing Project: The first draft
- Short Story Writing Project: Using Articles for Ideas
- Short Story Writing Project: Writing about real life events
- Short Story Writing Project: To make a long story short
- Short Story Writing Project: Beware of the Twilight Zone Ending
- Short Story Writing Project: What is a Short Story?
2008 30 Poems in 30 Days
- PD30 Day 1: I Believe in Poetry
- PD30 Day 2: Generally Be Specific
- PD30 Day 3: A Review of Meter
- PD30 Day 4: Poetry — the Writer’s Bridge to Music
- PD30 Day 5: Poetry and Pain
- PD30 Day 6: Poets and Parables
- PD30 Day 7: Embrace The Person You Are
- PD30 Day 8: The Occasional Poem
- PD30 Day 9: How to Write in Meter If You Have Two Left Feet
- PD30 Day 10: The Mighty Mighty Pantoum
- PD30 Day 11: Poets as Storytellers
- PD30 Day 12: The Poetry Journal, From Notebooks to Blackberries
- PD30 Day 13: Writing a Tanka
- PD30 Day 14: Poetry Under Pressure
- PD30 Day 15: Found Poetry
- PD30 Day 16: Editing Your Poetry
- PD30 Day 17: Capturing the Quiet
- PD30 Day 18: Fun with Hyponymy
- PD30 Day 19: A Glossary of Rhyme
- PD30 Day 20: Rhyme, Sound and Repetition
- PD30 Day 21: Moving Beyond Imitation
- PD30 Day 22: Travelogues
- PD30 Day 23: Ways to find Inspiration
- PD30 Day 24: Improving Your Imagery
- PD30 Day 25: Poets are Liars
- PD30 Day 26: Events and Emotion
- PD30 Day 27: Poetry and Prizes
- PD30 Day 28: The Basics of Poetry Submissions
- PD30 Day 29: Creating Your Own Chapbook
- PD30 Day 30: My Final Say
- PD30 Wrap Up And Other Thoughts
- All About 30 Poems in 30 Days
- The Entire 30 Poems in 30 Days Series — 2008
2007 30 Poems in 30 Days
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Why you should write poetry
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Writing About Yourself
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Writing About Issues
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Poetry of Place
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Persona Poems
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Developing Your Voice
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: About Forms and Lists
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Elegies and Memories
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: A Brief Glossary of Meter
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: The Good the Bad and the Meter
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Courting Controversy
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Syllabic Verse
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: What is Your Writing Process?
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Repetition
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Imagism
- 30 poems in 30 Days: Review Your Old Work
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: The Constraint as a Tool
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Joining the Community
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: About the Line
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Staying Positive
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Progression
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Breaking the Rules
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Confessional Poetry
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Say What You Want to Say
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Poetry Contests
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Free Verse
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Finding New Ways To Stay Inspired
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Word Choice
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: A Little Advice
- 30 Poems in 30 Days: Collaboration
Poetry
- 5 Lessons Poets Can Learn From Henry Rollins
- 7 Easy Steps to a More Pretentious Poem
- 7 Great Ways to Become the Victim of a Poetry Contest Scam
- Poetry Assignment: Write a Poem about a Gathering
- Poetry Assignment: Imagery
- Some Recently Published Books of Poetry You Might Want to Read
- Weekly Poetry Assignment 1: Compilations and Love Poems
- Weekly Poetry Assignment 2: Water
- Weekly Poetry Assignment 3: Poetry and Photographs
- Weekly Poetry Assignment 4: Difficult Subjects
- Weekly Poetry Assignment 5: More Poetic Terms
- Weekly Poetry Assignment 6: Feeling the Flow
- Poetry Publishing on the Cheap: Chapbooks
- Four Ways to Publish Your Poetry
- Four Things Poets Can Learn From George Carlin
- Poetry Across the Web
- A Quick Guide to Acrostic Poetry
- Bukowski
- What are Metaphor, Simile and Analogy?
- What is a Stanza?
- Poetry In Forms Series: Tercet and Triad
- Poetry in Forms Series: Epistle
- Poetry in Forms Series: Cinquain
- Doublets, Cinquains and Adelaide Crapsey
- Rhythm and Stress