Prose Project

[Eagle Song]

The prose forum is, to a large extent, ignored in the shadow of the critical poetry forums. It seems as though it is only a token acknowledgement of the form, in a generally poetry orientated site.
Neophyte offers a great little handbook for poetry in the form of an email attachment. I hope to do the same in relation to prose. It was while I was brosing the site yesterday that I came across Neophyte’s offer and it struck me as a great idea. So I said to myself, Why not have one for Prose?
The point of starting this topic is to encourage people to offer advice to poets wishing to branch out into prose, and to those who are generally more drawn to the prose forum.
Please try to address the following:
1. What make good prose good?
2. Gathering of ideas
3. The sentence
4. Word choice
5. Planning the piece
6. Developing plots and ideas
7. Imagery and Detail
8. Concluding your piece
9. How best to utilize advice given
10. Symbolism in prose

These were just some things that came to mind, but please do not feel restrained to these heading. ANY advice would be welcomed. I will also be scanning the Prose forum for the best of the advice given there.

Also, please try to keep your advice structured to make it easy to take out the best parts.
Thanking you for your time in advance.
Eagle Song.
(MC)

[Erika S]

Eagle Song -

You may find the following web site useful in compiling your Handbook. There are many well-written pieces on prose-writing.
http://pages.ivillage.com/bcjessica/

Good luck with your project!

-Erika

[Eagle Song]

Thanks Erika. I'm gonna take a look at that link now. It may take a few weeks for the final product to be produced, so please be patient.
Thanks again for the link.

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"Jesus can you take the time to throw a drowning man a line?"

Bono

[Eagle Song]

I just took a look at the site and it was exactly what I was looking for. It contained an awful lot of information which I will try to cut down to a minimum.
Thanks a million for your help erika. I really do appreciate it. http://www.everypoet.com/poetry/poetry_forums/biggrin.gif http://www.everypoet.com/poetry/poetry_forums/biggrin.gif

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"Jesus can you take the time to throw a drowning man a line?"

Bono

[chilla]

Deffinately!!

The prose section needs some organization!

We need some laws of the land!

I think there should be installments of prose because a lot of the authors just throw the whole work out and it's hard to give a helpful critique. If anyone's interested I'd love to get involved in some serious prose/fiction critiquing.

I don't usually post there because all the typing get's you a lame "that was good" comment.

Sigh.

[This message has been edited by chilla (edited 03-26-2001).]

[Harry Rutherford]

Originally posted by Eagle Song:
It seems as though it is only a token acknowledgement of the form, in a generally poetry orientated site.

Yup. I was under the impression that's exactly what it is. What you're looking for is The Prose Free For All.

Personally the main reason I don't potter through the prose section is that reading long chunks of text on a computer screen is too hard on the eyes, especially since window is too wide. 20-odd words a line? aargh!

Harry

[aislin]

i, personally, would appreciate comments, criticisms, ect. in the prose forum. i have 2 pieces of prose posted, one longer than my one poem, and have had 1 comment in the prose forum and probably at least 5-6 in the poetry forum. i posted my works to be read and commented on, not to just have my work on the internet somewhere. maybe some people who only write poetry (and no, this is not meant to rip on any hardcore poets-it's just my thoughts on the matter) don't realize how hard we work on our prose and feel it's inferior to their "soul-felt" poetry.