My tip for writing is to find ideas and images that delight you. The poet Dryden said, ‘The chief aim of poetry is to delight,’ and ‘delight’ is one of my favourite words. It is of course linked to happiness, but also means ‘to be filled with light’. Fill your poems with light, even if you are writing about a serious or sad subject. Illuminate them with the light of your own originality. Be you, be brave enough to be the sun of your own day. Find this light in you and let it guide you to what you love.
