To edit

Feel for the weak spots

  • meter/rhythm
  • thought structure
  • emotional centre
  • clarity
  • line endings
  • consonance & assonance
  • use of 5 senses
  • density/compression/efficiency
  • point/truth
  • beauty or cacophony and variation
  • immediacy
  • concretely specific
  • uniqueness of pov
  • motif
  • direction/momentum 
  • a turn or development
  • vulnerability, honesty, some skin the game
  • rhetoric
  • posturing 
  • earnest vs makes you laugh
  • makes the unstated salient 
  • what are left margin words
  • sharp verbs

It would be interesting to do a screen recording of editing a poem.

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