that I should also point out that you're writing your poetry for publication; I'm writing mine for... still not sure, to be honest. Narrative verse is something I can't imagine writing without an intention to find an audience. Actually, -any- narrative, seems to me, to want an audience.
I think, when I started my first novel (the one that became the second book) I was without question a better poet -- in the modern, blank verse sense -- than I was a prose writer. There are a lot of conventions in modern poetry that I had difficulty shifting away from (in particular, the use of description -as- description, as something that refers to an object, or in fact, the use of any description at all).
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Date: 2004-06-19 08:15 am (UTC)I think, when I started my first novel (the one that became the second book) I was without question a better poet -- in the modern, blank verse sense -- than I was a prose writer. There are a lot of conventions in modern poetry that I had difficulty shifting away from (in particular, the use of description -as- description, as something that refers to an object, or in fact, the use of any description at all).