U is for URGE
Photo by Amy LV
Verbs are the most important of all your tools.
They push the sentence forward and give it momentum...
flail, poke, dazzle, squash, beguile, pamper, swagger, wheedle, vex.
- William Zinsser, ON WRITING WELL
As soon as I began thinking about the word URGE, I thought about what a mighty little word it is. Just say the word aloud - URGE. Doesn't it pack a lot of punch? That strong feeling is what urged me to write today's poem about verbs. I just began listing and thinking, playing with verbs I love. You may notice something about the rhyme in this poem too. (It's not just at the ends of the lines!)
You might wish to keep a page of mighty verbs in your own notebook, or maybe you will want to keep a verb list in class to share. Either way or even if you don't do this, always reread your work asking, "Is there a mightier verb that would better push this sentence?"
Congratulations to the winners of the Rebecca Kai Dotlich books over at my other blog Sharing Our Notebooks! Lori Faas won BELLA and BEAN, and Renee LaTulippe won LEMONADE SUN! Please just send me an e-mail with your name and snail mail address to my e-mail at amy at amylv dot com.
Today at Sharing Our Notebooks, author and poet Suz Blackaby is sharing her notebooks as well as a neat writing exercise. Stop by to read her words and to enter the giveaway for her NEST, NOOK, & CRANNY.
Guess what! The Poem Farm almost has 200 followers in that little grid of photos over to the left! Thank you, everybody! It is helpful for me to show publishers that people read this blog, and I appreciate your public show of support.
Congratulations to the winners of the Rebecca Kai Dotlich books over at my other blog Sharing Our Notebooks! Lori Faas won BELLA and BEAN, and Renee LaTulippe won LEMONADE SUN! Please just send me an e-mail with your name and snail mail address to my e-mail at amy at amylv dot com.
Today at Sharing Our Notebooks, author and poet Suz Blackaby is sharing her notebooks as well as a neat writing exercise. Stop by to read her words and to enter the giveaway for her NEST, NOOK, & CRANNY.
Guess what! The Poem Farm almost has 200 followers in that little grid of photos over to the left! Thank you, everybody! It is helpful for me to show publishers that people read this blog, and I appreciate your public show of support.
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