Someone had to start the discussion in this new community, so I figured I’d give it a shot!
I discovered that I have a knack for script writing, so I usually stick to prose and focus on driving the action through my characters’ dialogue. I need to work more on describing scenes in a way that isn’t rooted in stage directions.
I can appreciate good poetry, but am generally not a fan of “free verse”. I prefer the challenge of writing something with a meter, or has a rhyme scheme. Re-writing song lyrics is a fun way to play with that, but maybe I listened to too much Weird Al growing up.
So, if you had to pick a side… poetry or prose?
Prose, every time. But when Im feeling really stalled or uninspired I find I often get more inspiration from reading poetry.
I studied lit in university and have lots of poetry books and anthologies lying around, but I highly recommend this for other writers when theyre feeling run down or stumped. Go get some poetry books!
