Hello, my dear mentors and mentees! 
I hope the course is going fine for you all, and that you're learning and enjoying yourself. Hopefully making friends, too! (:
First things first
We have interviewed some great deviants for you: in tWR Interviews:Vocabulary, Narrative Voice and POV, raspil and Memnalar talk about narrative voice and POV, and Carmalain7, Vigilo, williamszm, kiwi-damnation and Jade-Pandora talk about vocabulary building for poetry. Please check it out! And maybe give it a fav
because it deserves the exposure. 
Poetry Course - Lesson 5
This 5th lesson focuses on vocabulary building.
The Resources/Articles
Synonyms, the Thesaurus and You
Making the Most of the Words You Use (this is a Prose Basics article, but we thought it describes how to build your vocabulary for poetry in a way, too)
We also thought Showing, Part 1 worked right around here. Vocabulary building is also about how to build descriptions and so on, and we felt that the "show, don't tell" thing needed to be mentioned.
Building Your Vocabulary
As before, a warning. Some of these articles may repeat each other, some may give different kinds of advice for the same topic - you can read them all, your mentor can read them and then explain to you, you can choose a few or just one to read; it's really all up to you. We're giving you the tools, but you shape your own course together.
The Activities
Mentor gives the mentee a list of 5 words straight out of a random vocabulary search, and the mentee must use them all in their poem. A good follow-up exercise could be to write a poem using the synonyms, or antonyms, of the above words.
take the five words used previously, find words that rhyme with each, and use those rhyming words to make new poems. Rinse and repeat.
exchange a small reading list of good poetry with elaborate vocabulary; it can be DA poetry, too - and Carmalain7 is an example off the top of my head of someone whose poetry fits the bill.
So what do you want to see from us before the lesson is over?
From the activities above, if you do happen to write a piece resulting from them, please note us
a link to it so we can include it in our Mentorship Project folder.
Do you need someplace to meet up and talk? A great idea is exchanging skype details, or meet up in theWrittenRevolution's chatroom, it's at your disposal. (:
Prose Course - Lesson 5
This 5th lesson focuses on narrative voice and POV.
The Resources/Articles
Point of View
An Overview on Point o' View
Pesky Point of View
These are offsite articles that could give some help too:
Narrative Voice
Point of View and Narrative Voice
As always, a warning. Some of these articles may repeat each other, some may give different kinds of advice for the same topic - you can read them all, your mentor can read them and then explain to you, you can choose a few or just one to read; it's really all up to you.We're giving you the tools, but you shape your own course together.
The Activities
Mentee must write out of their comfort zone and use a POV they never used before. An exercise of inversion. Mentor chooses a short story/prose, and the mentee must either: 1, write it from another character's POV or 2, have the character who narrates have a completely opposite view of facts compared to the one they have in the original story.
So what do you want to see from us before the lesson is over?
From the activities above, if you do happen to write a piece resulting from them, please note us a link to it so we can include it in our Mentorship Project folder.
Do you need someplace to meet up and talk? A great idea is exchanging skype details, or meet up in theWrittenRevolution's chatroom, it's at your disposal. (:
So, what do we do now?
Now you start working on your lesson! 
Poetry fellows,your next lesson will be posted on April 9th!
Prose friends,your next lesson will be posted on April 16th!
If you need anything...
Please note the group and let us know any concern you have, or clarification/advice that is needed, we're here to help! Just a note away.
