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Writing Developing the First Draft
Create a Poem 🟪 The next step is to turn your freewriting into a poem. Focus on words with the right sound and feeling. Say things in special ways. Think of where to break the lines.
The writer shifts to third person to see herself from the outside. She also uses present tense. A new girl, an old beagle,
at the dog park in a new town.
The girl sits on the bench,
Pepper leashed by her side.
Sentences get shorter to show increasing nervousness. Other dogs run free.
He whines to see them.
“That shepherd will eat you.”
Pepper paws the ground.
The girl unclasps the leash.
Pepper charges the shepherd.