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Do you prefer to write poetry or prose? (beehaw.org)
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Someone had to start the discussion in this new community, so I figured I'd give it a shot!

I discovered that I have a knack for script writing, so I usually stick to prose and focus on driving the action through my characters' dialogue. I need to work more on describing scenes in a way that isn't rooted in stage directions.

I can appreciate good poetry, but am generally not a fan of "free verse". I prefer the challenge of writing something with a meter, or has a rhyme scheme. Re-writing song lyrics is a fun way to play with that, but maybe I listened to too much Weird Al growing up.

So, if you had to pick a side... poetry or prose?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I prefer prose personally, but I'll occasionally slip in some fancy stuff for a bit of razzle dazzle.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Prose, absolutely. I can appreciate flowerful verse and such, but that does not fit my style of story telling.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I read 4:48 psychosis as a teenager and I think it fucked up the way I write forever 🤣 it's a play but it's written in a dreamy sort of poetic format. Whenever I write anything, Sarah Kane's ghost possesses me to leave gaps all over the page. I should probably try to unlearn it, but then again I'm the only one who reads what I write.

So I think I write in prose but it rarely has any narrative or argument. It'd more descriptive. But I haven't much talent for rhyming or for following meters. Someone else here said that for them prose is work. I think I'm the opposite. I'd have to think very hard to create poetry.