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Sat Jul 5, 2008, 9:12 AM
Hi folks,

I've been having trouble with this deviation lately; [link]

I've been reviewing it and it's been changed from prose to prosetry on ~pardonM3's suggestion. However, ~haibishonen has made an excellent point on falling back on poetic devices in prose - which brings into question a big debate; what is prosetry?

Not to mention that I'm not entirely sure whether it works better as prose or as prosetry. Your thoughts?

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Hmm... I don't know if I'll be able to help you on this... I'm not good with prosetry at all and have only recently been exposed to it.

I think that it's arranged in a more poetic fashion, but written with an air of being prose. I don't know if that will help or not, but that's how I'm seeing it.

Like I said, I'm pretty new to all the prosetry stuff... :blush:

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Me too. I honestly haven't even read very much of it and I find it difficult to differ between the forms...or if it's even a formal form because there's no dA category for it [but that doesn't make it any less valid, of course]. I'm at sea.

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Stuck in the same boat, I guess. XP

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(Do illiterate people get the full effect of Alphabet soup?)
All those who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand.
Smile, and the world will smile with you. Laugh and they'll all think you're on drugs.
Ah we'll find our shores. ;)

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I guess it depends on what you had in mind when you wrote it. If you thought this idea would be great as a poem, then it's prosetry, and if you thought that it would be better as a story, then it's prose.

That's my take on it....

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i would say that this piece could make for fantastic metaphorical fiction (which in turn sounds a lot like prose poetry to me). Somewhere between abstract and concrete, flowery and no-nonsense... It's gotta be what you make it. Unfortunately, that's the best advice I can offer.

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Just to clear things up (as if things will ever get clearer!) what I meant was that the specific poetic device you were using - parentheses for effect - seemed like it didn't fit, to me. I think poetic devices should still be used... I think.
That was what I was trying to say, but I still can't really answer the question... where is the line between prose and poetry?
At this point, prosetry seems to be writer-defined.
A cop-out answer, perhaps.
Then again, most things in life are like that, defined by those who experience or make them.

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:idea: epiphanies are the spice of life.

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