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How to Help a Young Child Begin to Write
How to Write a Cinquain
How to Write a Quatrain
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How to Write a Memoir
How to Abbreviate Properly
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How to Guess What a Word Means
How to Write a Cookbook
How to Write a Poem
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How to Write a Non-Fiction Book
How To Become a Writer
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Where to Get a Children's Book Published
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How to Publish a Children's Picture Book
How to Publish an E-Book
How to Get a Fiction Book Published
How to Write a Creative Writing Story
How to Self-Publish a Children's Book
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Summary: A quatrain is a four lined poem that doesn't have a specific format and is not bound by a rhyme scheme or syllable length. Write a quatrain with tips from a writing instructor in this free video on writing.
Laura Minnigerode is a writing instructor and former classroom teacher. Her teaching experience includes public and private schools, as well as writing workshops for adults and...read more
"Hi, I'm Laura from youngwritersworkshop.com. And I'm going to talk about how to write a quatrain. First thing you need to know, is that a quatrain is a four lined poem. It doesn't have a specific format. It's not bound by a rhyme scheme or syllable length. Or anything like that. It's just any poem with four lines. So that makes it pretty easy for you to write a quatrain. One of the things to think about, when writing a poem. Is that a poem is an efficient form of expressing an idea or a feeling. So use your words carefully. Use words that have a lot of meaning. They're really powerful. And really express a lot. Go back to your quatrain. Read it over. And tighten it up by removing words that aren't working. Or replacing them with words that work better. Read it over and make sure that it's expressing the ideas. That you wanted it to express. And those are some important ideas about how to write a quatrain."
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