Trying to find writing inspiration? Make the everyday new again
This writing tip is from Kayla Czaga.
"Poetry has the capacity to make the everyday new again, and it does that through metaphors. There are things all around us that we've gotten so used to, we don't think about them any more. Follow toddlers, for example, who are new to language. I once heard of a toddler calling pockets her 'snack holes.' Pay special attention to the world while writing. Try to see what's hiding in what's already there."
Kayla Czaga is the author of For Your Safety Please Hold On and Dunk Tank. Her debut won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and was nominated for the Governor General's Literary Award for poetry and the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, among others. Her poem Drunk River made the 2018 CBC Poetry Prize longlist.