The past five years, I've devoted most of my (non-day-job) writing to poetry — largely narrative verse. I have a collection doing the rounds (somewhat desultorily at the moment; Arizona summers do sap one's energy), and am working on a cycle of linked stories I hope will eventually become a fix-up verse novel. Some, I've manged to sell to fiction markets as short stories (The First Heroes, just out, has one) and am trying to market myself as an anthology whore willing to spin out on demand fluffy tales with line breaks. So far I haven't cracked the print genre magazines; I probably need to write more explicitly skiffy stuff for that.
Why? Because, at least right now, I'm better at poetry than prose. Narrative verse plays to my strengths as a writer, and diminishes my weaknesses. And, to be honest, it's plain fun to write. Especially Greek myth sex farces.
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Date: 2004-06-18 09:16 pm (UTC)The past five years, I've devoted most of my (non-day-job) writing to poetry — largely narrative verse. I have a collection doing the rounds (somewhat desultorily at the moment; Arizona summers do sap one's energy), and am working on a cycle of linked stories I hope will eventually become a fix-up verse novel. Some, I've manged to sell to fiction markets as short stories (The First Heroes, just out, has one) and am trying to market myself as an anthology whore willing to spin out on demand fluffy tales with line breaks. So far I haven't cracked the print genre magazines; I probably need to write more explicitly skiffy stuff for that.
Why? Because, at least right now, I'm better at poetry than prose. Narrative verse plays to my strengths as a writer, and diminishes my weaknesses. And, to be honest, it's plain fun to write. Especially Greek myth sex farces.
---L.