25 Tips for Budding Poets

1. Write to express. Not to impress.
2. What goes around comes back stronger. Spread Positive Vibes.
3. Be Interesting. Be Mysterious. The less you reveal about your inspiration, the interesting will be your poetry.
4. Engage on post of other poets and use constructive feedback to help each other grow.
5. Don't bound yourself. Let your emotions fly.
6. Let the story flow. If you can't feel your words. No one can feel it.
7. Make your readers curious. Get into their heart and mind.
8. Transform your negative emotions into an entirely positive and inspiring poetry without revealing your inspiration for that poetry.
9. Let your imagination cross all boundaries.
10. The combination of a paper and imagination is divine, it gives you wings. ;-)
11. Soar high in the world of words and emotions. Express without limits.
12. Be yourself. Go with the flow.
13. Write about what you knows and what moves you.
14. Let it flow effortless. If you have to force it, it is not poetry.
15. Life is a poetry, study life to become a good poet.
16. The more you read,the better you write.
17. Be honest. Honesty conveys emotions and expression better.
18. Learn the rules. Then break them...after all it's your writing, you can do whatever you want with it.
19. Try a lot of different things and see what you enjoys the most.
20. Keep your critics close. They're there to push you harder.
21. Be honest with yourself and what you are going to write.
22. Be free... whatever your mind and heart says just pen it down. Art has no fear of judgmental things.
23. Have a central theme for your poetry. Inspire with words as your tool. Convert Heat Energy to Light Energy.
24. Have various source of inspiration, else your works would be monotonous and repetitive.
25. Be versatile. Explore different emotions, different themes, different genre.

Contribution by:

Anjali Kriplani I Pradeepta Yadu I Vinita Punjabi I Malvika Shanker

Zeel Patel I Rohan Sinha

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Competition- Top 10 Motivators at Poignant Painter.

Use this platform to build your reputation as a poet who uses words to inspire his audience. Don't get struck to just one kind of poems, use your imagination and paint this beautiful canvas with words and earn a reputation of being a Poet who motivates others through Poetry.

1. Hashtag (#Top10Motivators) with your poetry to be considered for the competition- Top 10 Motivators at Poignant Painter.
2. You can submit as many entries as you like. Your Top 3 poems will be considered for evaluation.
3. The posts submitted hereafter this post till 10th Mar, 16 are considered for this competition.
4. Apart from this, feel free to write what flows...
5. Post queries if any via comments...
6. Read and Understand the writing guidelines/ tips for newcomers on Welcome on Poignant Painter to ensure that you don't lose points for any mistake.
7. Only few people are tagging relevant topics. You're losing points and your reach to interested audience by not tagging topics. Please do add relevant tags to your poetry everytime.

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Do check out some other writing tips and tricks at Writing is Painting