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Gigi Will Know

Have a query about craft? Need some clarification on an aspect of the publishing industry? Looking for
career advice? Email your queries to [email protected] with the subject line “Advice Column.”

We can’t wait to read your questions!

A lot of editors highly because we think you need dog is full of love. ••• wowomnom/Shutterstock
recommend reading to understand it all; we are I’ve also found, by
poetry as a way to telling you to read poetry actual test, I’m writing a story that
improve our craft. But because we want you to pay A wet dog is the is written from the
should we read poetry attention to the line breaks, lovingest. perspective of a young
even if we don’t under- the spacing, the word child. My choice of
stand it? I have a lot of choice, the economy of Here’s Emily Dickinson: words should reflect
respect for poets, but wording, and the phrasing. that person’s age and
often I don’t understand Take it line by line, word by To fill a Gap vocabulary, right? Or is it
what I’m reading, and word, white space by white Insert the Thing that ever OK to reach for
that discourages me at space. caused it – more “adult” word
time to read it. Block it up choices for the sake of
(Also, some poets delib- With Other – and the narrative?
—PETRIFIED BY POETRY erately write to be obscure. ‘twill yawn the more –
And you’re not going to like You cannot solder an —NOT ALL BABIES USE
Dear Petrified, every poet, just like you Abyss
Heck, you didn’t think probably don’t like every With Air. BABYTALK, RIGHT?
writer or TV show or
you were all alone in this, album ever produced by And here’s the first Dear Babytalk,
did you? Because there are a Pink Floyd. All of that is stanza of “scruples,” by Nate You’re asking the wrong
whole bunch of people who cool. It shouldn’t hamper Marshall:
stay away from things we your reading the ones you question. Don’t worry about
don’t understand. (One do like.) scruples the narrative. Worry about
could say this a key reason is the word i tell any- the character who’s driving
people are afraid of diver- One more thing: Just one who asks the narrative.
sity, but that’s for another because you don’t get it now for my favorite. what
column.) doesn’t mean you won’t get sounded We all know that perspi-
it later. Assume a growth to me like a doctor’s cacious rugrat whose word
Look, no one likes to feel mindset. Your brain is huge instrument was just a choices are way beyond
stupid. And reading things – and super-plastic; it’s busy name for the hesita- what we’d “expect” of a kid
or watching things, like absorbing things even if you tion respectability their age, right? I’d take a
French movies that don’t don’t quite know that’s births. hard look at the character
seem to actually end – that happening. you’re writing: Are they the
you don’t “get” is a surefire Keep on. And keep me type to use big words? Then
way to feel like you’re not Here are some poems for posted on the poets you go for it.
the sharpest tool in the you to get started. eventually discover.
shed. But hey, great news: You’re writing fiction.
There are plenty of poets Here’s Ogden Nash: Fear of the Unknown You’re allowed to stretch the
out there you will be sure to Keeps Us Sharp, limits of a reader’s expecta-
understand. Read them first. The Dog tions. Don’t pigeonhole your
The truth I do not —Gigi characters.
Look, editors aren’t tell- stretch or shove
ing you to read poetry When I state that the Speaking Softly and Car-
rying Big Words,

—Gigi

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