WRITING DIFFERENT GENRES

Though famous authors are known for writing a particular genre, they have written other lesser-known works.

James Baldwin was a novelist, essayist, and playwright. How many people know that he has many collections of poetry? Sylvia Plath wrote short stories besides poetry. Though noted for prose, Herman Melville wrote poetry. Edgar Allan Poe is the inventor of detective fiction. Toni Morrison was a book editor besides being a novelist and essayist.

Writing different genres can stretch the mind and expand one's horizons. I wrote short stories, essays, and commentaries. I took to poetry a decade ago believing my story writing had grown stagnant. Since then, I have written a few plays, horror, haiku, and prose. 

Writing teaches me discipline and structure. I have written short stories since my teen years. When I tried poetry, I was locked in on my thought process. Since then I have written around three hundred poems.