That is one of the strengths of poetry, really. It's very fitting for moments like that. Especially because a lot of it is very short and a lot of it can be done entirely vocally. Like I'll compose small things if I'm especially touched by the sight of a particular rock while on a walk or something. And yeah. The that fits there not because it's like grammatically incorrect or anything, more that that extra word there adds a more natural kind of flow to the stanza. So it neatly trips without leaving the mouth wondering where a syllable went. Which even in free verse is a very important thing for a lot of it. Just it isn't held to a strict pattern of stresses like the meter strict forms are. For editing things like that or thinking about things like that I just read through things out loud and see how best they feel as they fall out. It's a very time consuming sort of editing and separate from the like structural editing and what not, but it is a fun sort I feel. Even if it takes forever.
Speaking poetry is the bomb, although I was never one for uh. Modern spoken word poetry? My creative writing society at university was run in my last year by some folks who adored spoken word poetry, and kept having classes on it, and I never got on with it at all. Made me uncomfortable and antsy. Maybe I just prefer being the performer to the audience. I did, however, really love that when my English class at school was reading a long, older poem about a woman buying poison to murder her husband, and people were reading a stanza each, when I got to my stanza I was then allowed to go on and read out the whole entire rest of the thing because as per usual I was the only one who put any effort into the reading.
Oh reading poetry in classes can be...Mmmm. It's like when you have to read plays for English class a lot of the time. Or read anything, honestly. But poetry and drama get it the worst. Drama because it needs to be acted just by necessity of what it is and poetry because...we don't really teach people how to read it? So people either drone or like have this weird...generic classroom poetry reading voice.
Oh lord tell me about it. We read Hamlet with various people taking roles, and after the first time I played him I was the only one that ever read Hamlet because I was the only one who'd put up with his ramblings, pf. Hamlet's a great role to read, even if I'm no especially wonderful actor. I was at one point trying to memorise Education for Leisure because I enjoyed performing it a lot but never actually managed to. Maybe I should try again.
I don't want just a general poetry thread. I want VERY SPECIFICALLY fanfiction poetry and exactly and ONLY that. More poetry in general is nice but it's not what I want. And I've tried getting other people to try out poetry fic or showed them poetry fic and talked to them about poetry fic and no one wants to. People just want to do prose.
Like when I've suggested that people try and even when I've tried to help I just get 'It's too hard' and similar things.
aon, to be fair, people have different strengths and preferences. poetry is unfortunately not a very popular one, and that definitely sucks. i write decent poetry but frankly will probably never write it for fandom just because it's not something i'm interested in doing - i just find it easier and more slap-dash to write some quick garbage in prose style rather than a poetry style because that way i dont have to worry about some of the extra considerations that longform poetry have that prose doesnt thats just my onion but it really does seem like youre splitting hard over this and i know it sucks to enjoy something and not have it be represented, but...idk the answer to that isnt screaming "POETRY ISNT HARD AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" at people who are trying to suggest that poetry may be difficult for them, personally just because of personal preference/education
fair, not really sure how to help with that. sorry mang :< maybe take a breather or scream in vent thred or s/t?
I've been screaming in my vent thread and elsewhere most of the day, yes. Alternatively just laying around and being hopelessly fucking depressed. And it's fine to not know how to help. I don't know either. fuck.
I think a lot of the issue too is that poetry seems to have a more serious air to it, one that people don’t usually attach to fanfiction. I personally have written many poems to help me cope with my trauma, but when I sit down and write a fic that will be action-packed, I feel that prose is the better medium. Poetry and prose accomplish different things and elicit different feelings in the audience. I don’t wish to obfuscate anything for my readers. I also don’t know what fandoms you’re interested in, so you might not even want to read a poetry fic if I wrote one.
can we please not keep doing this please can we not i know that no one likes poetry i would like to stop having it explained why no one likes it or ever will like it i don't even care for what fandom it would be all i want is more poetry fanfiction that i can read that is all i want i just want people writing more of it and not explaining constantly why no one writes it or will right it no one likes poetry because it's bad and horrible and no one will write it and no one would want to be part of a fanfic exchange thing or something where the goal is to write only poetry because poetry isn't a good medium and no one cares
soulmate aus where half the word count is just poorly describing the mechanics of the soulmate system or blandly describing the main characters' manifestations of it
That’s not at all what I’m saying. I’m sure there’s people on the internet somewhere who would like to be a part of a poetry fic compilation, and if the fandom doesn’t matter to you I could whip up a poetry drabble in the next few days about Haku. Poetry is not a bad or horrible medium, just unpopular and poorly understood. Having a niche interest doesn’t make it bad.
