I need to work on prose now
14 May 2006 02:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
larryhammerState of the finished draft: 735 lines, 5370 words, 57 colons, 26 semicolons, 20 parentheses, 176 em-dashes, and one 2-em-dash.
I've apparently upgraded my colonic love affair from semi to full. I even manage 3 colons in a single stanza -- while another, stuttery one has 8 em-dashes. But that's not really a fair comparison, as dashes can be both semistops and parenthetical.
What I said about sometimes poetry is all about the affixes? I was wrong. It's all about the breath marks.
---L.
I've apparently upgraded my colonic love affair from semi to full. I even manage 3 colons in a single stanza -- while another, stuttery one has 8 em-dashes. But that's not really a fair comparison, as dashes can be both semistops and parenthetical.
What I said about sometimes poetry is all about the affixes? I was wrong. It's all about the breath marks.
---L.