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Nick wrote: "Know thy forms!
After reading your precis, though, I feel the struggle against the straight jacket. I have the impression that creative writing courses give a lot of effort to such things. I can'..."
I only look to forms when my usual methods of writing whatever are producing something between "not" and "much." Sometimes picking one, and then proceeding to break it, helps.
Sometimes not.
Ken wrote: "Nick wrote: "Know thy forms!
After reading your precis, though, I feel the struggle against the straight jacket. I have the impression that creative writing courses give a lot of effort to such t..."
I can see that being useful. If you bang your head against something, why not something with form.
Yes, it'll make forms in your skull.
I still suck at form poetry. The forms people think of, I mean: sonnets, villanelles, sestinas, odes, haikus, even limericks. If it wasn't for free verse, I'd be a caged poet.
This sounds like an interesting read and maybe useful for someone who is very observant while reading poetry. Ken, hope you enjoyed the examples given for each form and got to read some new ones.
Vishakha wrote: "This sounds like an interesting read and maybe useful for someone who is very observant while reading poetry. Ken, hope you enjoyed the examples given for each form and got to read some new ones."
Thanks, Vishakha. I learned something, and that's always a good thing! (It goes without saying that I have an awful lot to learn.)
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Nick wrote: "Know thy forms! After reading your precis, though, I feel the struggle against the straight jacket. I have the impression that creative writing courses give a lot of effort to such things. I can'..."
I only look to forms when my usual methods of writing whatever are producing something between "not" and "much." Sometimes picking one, and then proceeding to break it, helps.
Sometimes not.
Ken wrote: "Nick wrote: "Know thy forms! After reading your precis, though, I feel the struggle against the straight jacket. I have the impression that creative writing courses give a lot of effort to such t..."
I can see that being useful. If you bang your head against something, why not something with form.
Yes, it'll make forms in your skull.I still suck at form poetry. The forms people think of, I mean: sonnets, villanelles, sestinas, odes, haikus, even limericks. If it wasn't for free verse, I'd be a caged poet.
This sounds like an interesting read and maybe useful for someone who is very observant while reading poetry. Ken, hope you enjoyed the examples given for each form and got to read some new ones.
Vishakha wrote: "This sounds like an interesting read and maybe useful for someone who is very observant while reading poetry. Ken, hope you enjoyed the examples given for each form and got to read some new ones."Thanks, Vishakha. I learned something, and that's always a good thing! (It goes without saying that I have an awful lot to learn.)
After reading your precis, though, I feel the struggle against the straight jacket. I have the impression that creative writing courses give a lot of effort to such things. I can't imagine any other market for it.
is there an interlocutor form?