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(First Published on ThanetWriters.com 2017/01/12 by Connor Sansby) Last night I read a story for the first time. It isn’t finished but it’s good enough, I think. Every time I step foot onstage, even with audience-tested pieces, I go through the same cycle. For the roughly six hours before the event, I’ll stress about what I’m…
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(First published on ThanetWriters.com on 2017/01/31 by Connor Sansby) Here are five things I’ve learnt that helped develop my writing. 1. Get Some Exercise Playing some sports clears the mind. It gives you something to focus on that isn’t your work and lets your subconscious do its thing. It’s really tempting to keep yourself in-front of…
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(First published on ThanetWriters.com on 2017/03/23 by Connor Sansby) The biggest problem many performing poets and writers face is a lack of confidence on the stage. It’s really easy to think that you don’t deserve your time on stage, that you’ll bore the audience or that someone else could fill your time much better than you.…
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(First published on ThanetWriters.com on 2017/04/06 by Connor Sansby) I’m always surprised when someone says they’re “never going on stage” or “getting behind a microphone” to perform poetry. I’m not saying it isn’t daunting, but a lot of things are. We accept an initial failure in so many areas before we get better but the idea…
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(First Published on ThanetWriters.com on 2017/07/04 by Connor Sansby) Poetry is the great democratising art form. It requires no extensive technique to write your first poem and it uses the same elements we use in communication every day. The trick lies in boiling that down to reveal beauty in everything from the dark to the…
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(First Published on ThanetWriters.com on 2017/08/01 by Connor Sansby) There is a difference between writing poetry for the page and writing to perform, and with each you can get away with some things that, for the other, are unacceptable. Ultimately you should aim to write the best poetry you can in either case, but if…
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(First Published on ThanetWriters.com on 2017/08/24 by Connor Sansby) What makes a piece of writing great? Myself and many other writers would argue that it’s the authenticity. No great book was every built without knowledge or research. As writers, it is our job to make sure that what we share with the world is honest,…
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(First Published on ThanetWriters.com on 2017/08/29 by Connor Sansby) I’ve been to hundreds of poetry events. I’ve seen actors fling themselves around the stage in desperate grips of heart wrenching sorrow and I’ve seen poets bring in props and costumes and shout to high heaven… and I hate them. Not like “I hate this person,”…
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(First Published on ThanetWriters.com on 2017/09/07 by Connor Sansby) There are countless resources for writers out there, offering almost everything a writer could dream of. A writer could spend days doing nothing but checking them out, but then we wouldn’t get any writing done and where would that leave us? No single bit of technology…
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(First Published on ThanetWriters.com on 2017/09/21 by Connor Sansby) When writing plain text, we let our word-processors handle the text wrapping. A paragraph is one solid line of text, formatted so it fits within the margins of our document. With poetry, each line of a stanza should be on a separate line, and each stanza…
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