Rhyming PB's

As promised, I am going to commit today's post to rhyme- hopefully helping some PB writers out there who are struggling with it.

I have been writing rhyme all my life (just for fun), but I had no understanding of the technical aspect of it. I still don't have a firm understanding, if I'm honest. But because of some of the helpful resources that I've listed below, as well as some wonderful God-sent members of my critique group, I have finally gotten enough of a hold on it to finally revise "Sally Circle" and hopefully submit it by the end of the month!

Here are some links that I have found to be OH-SO-HELPFUL, given to me by some amazing followers/friends.

http://www.verlakay.com/boards/index.php?topic=40984.0

The above link is to a thread started on Verla Kay by Melissa, a member of my critique group. Man, I learned a LOT from this thread!

http://www.smartwriters.com/content/view/351/

This is an amazing resource!

http://www.underdown.org/mf-rhyme-and-meter.htm

(This is a website with a VERY large list of resources that can help).

I'm sure there are a lot more, but I want to encourage everyone to take a look. I swear I thought that as long as my rhyme flowed when I read it, it was okay. Then I discovered the world of un-accented/accented words, etc. and I realized how much more there is to it. When Melissa first tried explaining the "rules," I had absolutely no idea what she was talking about and, if I'm honest, I felt like an idiot. But it just took me some time to get my head around it and now I can say I'm a much better writer after doing my research and really, really trying. Now I feel like my RHYMING PB has a fair shot at getting published!

Thank you to all that have helped me!!!