The Broken Hush of a Silent Scream

The beauty of poetry is that you can use it in your fiction writing.

Not to turn your prose purple, mind you (unless that's by design); rather, to bring an element of you - your voice - into the work.

Make a list of what I call "juicy words". Pair them up into seemingly unnatural combinations.

The broken hush.

The scrabble moon.

Drop them into your prose where they make sense.

​Give your readers a glimpse of what you're able to do as a wordsmith.