Further meditations on narrative versecraft

Though this is more floundering, because I don't have the words to talk about it.

I've mentioned before the quantum nature of writing in stanzas, as opposed to the continuum of prose or blank verse. This requires shaping your narration into equal-sized bins, each stanza a story beat in which a single something happens. ( Some consequences of failure, with a digression comparing scenes to stanzas, and an appeal for more jargon. )

It would probably help if I found a community of formalist narrative poets. Ones who know their stuff. I feel like I'm reinventing wheels, without being able to name an "axle bearing."

* Repeat after me: "Ovid is our master. Ovid is our master."
** The third myrmidon story, "Atalanta's Races."
*** I'm replacing one character with somebody else with the same name.

---L.

Further meditations on narrative versecraft

Though this is more floundering, because I don't have the words to talk about it.

I've mentioned before the quantum nature of writing in stanzas, as opposed to the continuum of prose or blank verse. This requires shaping your narration into equal-sized bins, each stanza a story beat in which a single something happens. ( Some consequences of failure, with a digression comparing scenes to stanzas, and an appeal for more jargon. )

It would probably help if I found a community of formalist narrative poets. Ones who know their stuff. I feel like I'm reinventing wheels, without being able to name an "axle bearing."

* Repeat after me: "Ovid is our master. Ovid is our master."
** The third myrmidon story, "Atalanta's Races."
*** I'm replacing one character with somebody else with the same name.

---L.