From time to time, a poet finds they need to write in rhyme. But what are the different types, what effect do they have on a poem, and what’s the best way to go about drafting in rhyme? In this companion to The Writer’s Little Book of Meter, Hugo Award-winning poet Marie Brennan tackles the sonic side of the field!

Metrical verse is hugely popular when it takes the form of song lyrics, and yet its written cousin has fallen out of fashion in recent decades. To help guide writers unfamiliar with matters metrical through the thicket of terms and concepts, Hugo Award-winning poet Marie Brennan offers up not only a brief introduction to iambs and dactyls, tetrameters and pentameters, but advice on how to go about drafting rhythmic poetry -- including ways the rules can be bent and broken!

Sonnets, limericks, haiku: a few poetic forms are widely familiar. But the field of possibilities extends well past that, through hundreds of forms all around the world -- so how is a poet to decide among them? Breaking them down according to features like syllable count or refrain lines, Hugo Award-winning poet Marie Brennan analyzes what effects different features create, and how to tell which form might best support what you want to say!

From time to time, a poet finds they need to write in rhyme. But what are the different types, what effect do they have on a poem, and what’s the best way to go about drafting in rhyme? In this companion to The Writer’s Little Book of Meter, Hugo Award-winning poet Marie Brennan tackles the sonic side of the field!

Metrical verse is hugely popular when it takes the form of song lyrics, and yet its written cousin has fallen out of fashion in recent decades. To help guide writers unfamiliar with matters metrical through the thicket of terms and concepts, Hugo Award-winning poet Marie Brennan offers up not only a brief introduction to iambs and dactyls, tetrameters and pentameters, but advice on how to go about drafting rhythmic poetry -- including ways the rules can be bent and broken!

Metrical verse is hugely popular when it takes the form of song lyrics, and yet its written cousin has fallen out of fashion in recent decades. To help guide writers unfamiliar with matters metrical through the thicket of terms and concepts, Hugo Award-winning poet Marie Brennan offers up not only a brief introduction to iambs and dactyls, tetrameters and pentameters, but advice on how to go about drafting rhythmic poetry -- including ways the rules can be bent and broken!

Sonnets, limericks, haiku: a few poetic forms are widely familiar. But the field of possibilities extends well past that, through hundreds of forms all around the world -- so how is a poet to decide among them? Breaking them down according to features like syllable count or refrain lines, Hugo Award-winning poet Marie Brennan analyzes what effects different features create, and how to tell which form might best support what you want to say!

Sonnets, limericks, haiku: a few poetic forms are widely familiar. But the field of possibilities extends well past that, through hundreds of forms all around the world -- so how is a poet to decide among them? Breaking them down according to features like syllable count or refrain lines, Hugo Award-winning poet Marie Brennan analyzes what effects different features create, and how to tell which form might best support what you want to say!

From time to time, a poet finds they need to write in rhyme. But what are the different types, what effect do they have on a poem, and what’s the best way to go about drafting in rhyme? In this companion to The Writer’s Little Book of Meter, Hugo Award-winning poet Marie Brennan tackles the sonic side of the field!

From time to time, a poet finds they need to write in rhyme. But what are the different types, what effect do they have on a poem, and what’s the best way to go about drafting in rhyme? In this companion to The Writer’s Little Book of Meter, Hugo Award-winning poet Marie Brennan tackles the sonic side of the field!

Metrical verse is hugely popular when it takes the form of song lyrics, and yet its written cousin has fallen out of fashion in recent decades. To help guide writers unfamiliar with matters metrical through the thicket of terms and concepts, Hugo Award-winning poet Marie Brennan offers up not only a brief introduction to iambs and dactyls, tetrameters and pentameters, but advice on how to go about drafting rhythmic poetry -- including ways the rules can be bent and broken!

Metrical verse is hugely popular when it takes the form of song lyrics, and yet its written cousin has fallen out of fashion in recent decades. To help guide writers unfamiliar with matters metrical through the thicket of terms and concepts, Hugo Award-winning poet Marie Brennan offers up not only a brief introduction to iambs and dactyls, tetrameters and pentameters, but advice on how to go about drafting rhythmic poetry -- including ways the rules can be bent and broken!

Sonnets, limericks, haiku: a few poetic forms are widely familiar. But the field of possibilities extends well past that, through hundreds of forms all around the world -- so how is a poet to decide among them? Breaking them down according to features like syllable count or refrain lines, Hugo Award-winning poet Marie Brennan analyzes what effects different features create, and how to tell which form might best support what you want to say!

Sonnets, limericks, haiku: a few poetic forms are widely familiar. But the field of possibilities extends well past that, through hundreds of forms all around the world -- so how is a poet to decide among them? Breaking them down according to features like syllable count or refrain lines, Hugo Award-winning poet Marie Brennan analyzes what effects different features create, and how to tell which form might best support what you want to say!

From time to time, a poet finds they need to write in rhyme. But what are the different types, what effect do they have on a poem, and what’s the best way to go about drafting in rhyme? In this companion to The Writer’s Little Book of Meter, Hugo Award-winning poet Marie Brennan tackles the sonic side of the field!

From time to time, a poet finds they need to write in rhyme. But what are the different types, what effect do they have on a poem, and what’s the best way to go about drafting in rhyme? In this companion to The Writer’s Little Book of Meter, Hugo Award-winning poet Marie Brennan tackles the sonic side of the field!

Metrical verse is hugely popular when it takes the form of song lyrics, and yet its written cousin has fallen out of fashion in recent decades. To help guide writers unfamiliar with matters metrical through the thicket of terms and concepts, Hugo Award-winning poet Marie Brennan offers up not only a brief introduction to iambs and dactyls, tetrameters and pentameters, but advice on how to go about drafting rhythmic poetry -- including ways the rules can be bent and broken!

Metrical verse is hugely popular when it takes the form of song lyrics, and yet its written cousin has fallen out of fashion in recent decades. To help guide writers unfamiliar with matters metrical through the thicket of terms and concepts, Hugo Award-winning poet Marie Brennan offers up not only a brief introduction to iambs and dactyls, tetrameters and pentameters, but advice on how to go about drafting rhythmic poetry -- including ways the rules can be bent and broken!

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Names and terms in a fictional setting should ideally be more than just random sounds thrown together. Award-winning fantasy author Marie Brennan leverages her anthropological background and her experience with seven different languages to guide you through the social side of naming: how it can reflect everything from gender to geographical origin, implying a whole three-dimensional world behind the words on the page.

Names and terms in a fictional setting should ideally be more than just random sounds thrown together. Award-winning fantasy author Marie Brennan leverages her anthropological background and her experience with seven different languages to guide you through the social side of naming: how it can reflect everything from gender to geographical origin, implying a whole three-dimensional world behind the words on the page.

Writers of all genres can have a dizzying array of research needs, from broad contextual information to highly specific facts. Thanks to her academic background, award-winning author Marie Brennan is unafraid to dive in on matters ranging from history to ecology to medicine, and has now collected her most reliable techniques into one simple guide. If you need to know something for your fiction but don’t know where to start, this ebook is for you!

Writers of all genres can have a dizzying array of research needs, from broad contextual information to highly specific facts. Thanks to her academic background, award-winning author Marie Brennan is unafraid to dive in on matters ranging from history to ecology to medicine, and has now collected her most reliable techniques into one simple guide. If you need to know something for your fiction but don’t know where to start, this ebook is for you!