what type of work did everyone do? (1 Viewer)

[narrator]

i wrote a script, but i know over the past couple of years the majority of people have written short stories

 

[braindrainedAsh]

Poetry all the way! But out of the 5 people in my class, I was the only one that didn't do short stories!

 

[Daemontreu]

I'm impressed, someone else who did poetry. Seems that a lot of people pick short story *shrug*.

In our class? At first there were seven (poetry, website, short story x 4, critical response). Then it dropped to four in the end (poetry, 3 x short story). So, majority still goes to short story in that case.

What type of poetry did you do? Like a suite of poems? Or extended...?

 

[AsyLum]

short story...really short if i shortened it to two pages...actually i could have cut mine to two words

 

[AsyLum]

lol...nah...

Life.
Death.

 

[Gregor Samsa]

Out of my class of two, my classmate wrote a short story, and I 'composed' (to sound pompous) a critical response.

 

[Huy]

Poetry, same as braindrainedAsh.

Suite of poems.

 

[braindrainedAsh]

Mine was a collection of poems on a common theme (dance)

http://ashlee.8k.com/shadowsfalling

 

[spin spin sugar]

short stories

 

[Daemontreu]

Hey Ash, I love Leni Dancing! *jealous*

I ended up doing an extended poem - ballad. So simple and easy. I feel like such a bludger now.

 

[braindrainedAsh]

I wouldn't call an extended poem easy!!!! I find it hard enough to maintain ideas/rhythm/structure in short poems!

 

[gloria*]

i wrote a short story... thing.

Daemontreu --- extended poems are apparently incredibly difficult to sustain effectively. i'd love to be able to do it.

 

[Huy]

What's an extended poem?

You mean those poems which go on, and on, and on for pages and pages?

My longest poem was about 5-6 A4 pages, but I only used half a page (one column/half, as you do in poetry).

They revolved around one concept, but the themes in each poem are different, so they were a suite of poems.

 

[gloria*]

Originally posted by Huy

but I only used half a page (one column/half, as you do in poetry).

hey-- can you write freeverse poetry without linebreaks and call it poetry still? whats the law? (i'm not referring to the obvious laws of rhythm / meter / rhyme etc in structured poetry.)

 

[Huy]

Originally posted by gloria*
hey-- can you write freeverse poetry without linebreaks and call it poetry still? whats the law? (i'm not referring to the obvious laws of rhythm / meter / rhyme etc in structured poetry.)

I wrote freeverse poetry, but what do you mean by "linebreaks"

(breaks? stanzas?).

I call it poetry, everyone calls it poetry, hehe.

There isn't any "rules/laws" or even conventions to poetry, I read another BOS members' poetry and it contained an endless string of "fuck fuck" and "shit shit shit shit"

Although it was highly structured (TS Eliot style).

 

[gloria*]

writing sentences like this
and splitting structures to
fit that common idea that
poetry has to be cut into

these sections / stanzas
to be called poetry. yarr?

&, there definately ARE
rules and conventions in
some forms of poetry --
sonnets, sestinas, etc.

i was just wondering if you could just write paragraphs with the

occasional

line

break, and call that poety too?

 

[Daemontreu]

Hmm.... I find that short poems are hard to do because I can never finish them off!

Yeah. It looks long when you have the page numbers (24), but since it is Times New Roman, size 12, and that's only five stanzas per page for me... It really doesn't seem like that much compared to the 8000 word things you short story people had to do.

Can we post word documents here? If so, then I'll post my ballad for you all to scoff at.

 

[gloria*]

that'd be great! -- i'd love to see it.

there's actually a thead for posting major works somewhere in here ("ripping each other to shreds" i think??)

 

[Daemontreu]

With such an inspiring thread subject like that I think... I think I'll post it here. Much safer for my sanity, eh?

 

[gloria*]

ahahaha, yeah, it scared me off too.