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While many of us are obsessed with keeping our bodies fit and looking young not many of us try to look after our brains. We have all heard people say that the more we use our brain the better it works but what are some ways we can all improve our brain function? Well, if you enjoy writing it is a perfect way to boost those synaptic responses and build your neural network.

Being mostly an online poet I have experienced quite a lot of problems publishing poetry online due to the completely un-indexible nature of poetry on search engines. While large (and often impersonal) poetry sites will come up if you search poetry you will notice that it is unlikely to get results on individual poems. There are reasons for this and there are also simple ways around this so that your poetry can be seen online.

Poetry is just the evidence of life.  If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.  ~Leonard Cohen

Poetry used to be defined by very strict rules on structure as well as rhythm which meant that writers could only play with words within a rigid structure. Thanks to modern poetry and in particular 'Beat Generation' (Think Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac etc) poets this has changed dramatically. The free form of poetry we see today has little or no distinct structure from piece to piece unless intentionally done by poets still holding onto old writing values.

While academic writing and feature article writing for traditional media may require large amounts of writing the digital realm requires shorter and snappier pieces for its readers. If you are writing for the internet you need to think about how you read online as well. Do you spend a long time reading long winded articles or do you browse through reading bits and pieces. For most people a quick browse is the answer.