Elevate Your Poetry and Short Stories with One Ancient Trick

The first 500 people to use my link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare https://skl.sh/roughestdrafts03241 From sonnets to haiku to sijo, from Shakespeare to Bashō, great poets from antiquity to the modern day know this one trick to elevate their writing. And by using this one trick, we can turn a 17-syllable haiku into a killer short story. Join me in this video essay as we learn how to take just a few words and transform them into flash fiction. 0:00 What do these sonnets have in common? 4:39 What is a volta? 6:39 Haikus 9:18 Sijos 12:13 Flash fiction 17:20 Writing exercise: turning a haiku into a short story My website: https://jrwrites1999.wixsite.com/jona... Submit your work to me: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FA... P.O. Box 901989 Sandy, UT 84090 VODs channel:    / @roughestvods   Patreon:   / roughestdrafts   Instagram:   / roughestdrafts99   Twitter:   / roughestdrafts   Email: [email protected] Editor: Khabi Javan [email protected] Music: https://uppbeat.io/t/jonny-easton/kis... License code: BBWOJTHVD7UNE5KN https://uppbeat.io/t/brock-hewitt-sto... License code: XAEDPW6ZVTA9PONQ https://uppbeat.io/t/sonder-house/che... License code: L4PNW7Y2KYVLZXNJ https://uppbeat.io/t/oliver-massa/a-n... License code: 82E4UTHXJX8ASSKZ https://uppbeat.io/t/jonny-easton/sin... License code: 5CHTITY9IR2KRZPK #writing #creativewriting #literature #poem #poetry #shakespeare #haiku #flashfiction #shortstory Citations: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17...