Prose - Writers Forum

walrus · 02-03-2007, 12:28 PM

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Hodge · 02-03-2007, 01:29 PM

Umm, prose would be anything other than poetry and drama... There are already 3 sections devoted to it.

walrus · 02-03-2007, 02:11 PM

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Hodge · 02-03-2007, 03:35 PM

How are "fiction," "short stories," and "non-fiction" not meant for prose?

You aren't making any sense.

pgoroncy · 02-03-2007, 03:38 PM

I'm afraid that Hodge is quite right in his definition of prose.

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Originally Posted by Wikipedia

Prose is writing distinguished from poetry by its greater variety of rhythm and its closer resemblance to the patterns of everyday speech. The word prose comes from the Latin prosa, meaning straightforward. This describes the type of writing that prose embodies, unadorned with obvious stylistic devices. Prose writing is usually adopted for the description of facts or the discussion of whatever one's thoughts are, incorporated in free flowing speech. Thus, it may be used for newspapers, capers, magazines, encyclopedias, broadcast media, films, letters, debtor's notes, famous quotes, murder mystery, history, philosophy, biography, linguistic geography and many other forms of media along with rants on thoughts. It just depends on the school in which one was taught.

Perhaps you are thinking of a specific type of prose.

walrus · 02-03-2007, 04:00 PM

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Banzai · 02-03-2007, 04:09 PM

Prose poetry? Sounds like an oxymoron. Got any (brief) examples you could post here, because I don't know about everyone else, but I've never heard of it before.

walrus · 02-03-2007, 04:29 PM

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gohn67 · 02-03-2007, 04:43 PM

I can understand your frustration, walrus. I think the best solution is to post in the poetry forum. I know you have a nice following here, so I think people will understand when you post a prose poem and comment accordingly. The other option is to post in the Writer's Workshop, as you can post pretty much anything, though it's predominately fiction and most people there would not be familiar with your writing yet.

In short, people who are familiar with your writing will give appropriate comments and not tell you how to change your piece into a "poem" or "short story".

Also it wouldn't hurt to add "prose poetry" to description of the poetry forum. But I don't suspect that would help much.

walrus · 02-03-2007, 07:08 PM

Thanks Gohn! I appreciate your input!!!

Hodge · 02-03-2007, 07:49 PM

If someone's telling you it's too prosey, then it is. The point of prose poetry isn't to write something that's just prose with line breaks, but to write an actual form of poetry that looks like prose but just isn't quite that.

walrus · 02-03-2007, 08:19 PM

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mammamaia · 03-04-2007, 06:49 PM

there is already some 'prose poetry' being posted in the poetry section, so not all here are as unsure of where to put it as you seem to be, walrus... and getting testy with folks who are doing their best to be helpful, isn't the way to win friends and influence readers of your work...

you can either post your work in the poetry section, or in the essay section, should it be more prosy than poetic... or, in both, if you wish... adding just a 'prose' section makes no sense, since that term covers several already existing subsections, as has been noted... and adding a 'prose poetry' or 'poetic prose' section probably is not feasible, since so few here dabble in that writing form...