I'm the former...I have a friend who i think of as the latter. I don't think it's a matter of how well you do one of them, simply what one you tend to see yourself as....
Anyways, i thought it would be fun to have a club where everyone could write about doing both.
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65,949 / 50,000
Dec 16, 2007 - 11 40
I write poetry when the mood strikes. Although, I am doing a very ambitious Whittier style poetic book. I have to work on it in doses. If writing fiction is hard, writing it in poetic verse is killer.
21,076 / 50,000
Jan 7, 2008 - 21 26
Does it count if I write songs instead of poems? They're basically the same thing.
----------I write songs fairly often. Especially during times when I get super stressed (like now). Songwriting/poem-writing is the only way I can unwind.
~***~
Do what you love most.
And if it kills you someday-
Know you'll die happy.
1,706 / 50,000
Jan 10, 2008 - 11 37
I'm probably in the minority as I see myself as more of a poet than a writer (which may explain how bad I am at nano). I find both really enjoyable but poetry comes really easily to me whereas I have to work more at writing as I tend to find it hard to rememeber that I'm meant to be advancing the plot and not just writing reams about the emotions in the scene.
----------Current title: The Scarecrow
Current progress: I don't have a middle yet!
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Jan 13, 2008 - 23 36
May I see a sample of your poetic novel? I may have a go at something like that sometime. I used to write all the time, but married 7 years ago, and am now so busy I have only a little writing time. I think my husband is what they call 'demanding' of my time. He said I could not go back to do Honours when I was asked. I really wanted to but didn't dare to push the matter. Maybe next year?
----------asilalenore7
1,706 / 50,000
Jan 16, 2008 - 15 52
My last one was horrible but I'll see if I can find the one before as that turned out okay in parts
----------Current title: The Scarecrow
Current progress: I don't have a middle yet!
50,098 / 50,000
Jan 22, 2008 - 13 57
I'm a writer who does poetry - mainly becasue I'm in a poetry writing class right now and I have to.
I'd love to read some, people who have posted above me!
----------"On this journey that you're making, there'll be answers that you seek,
and it's you who'll climb the mountain; It's you who'll reach the peak!"
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Jan 29, 2008 - 13 00
I'm... both. I enjoy writing my poems just as much as I do writing my stories and I've been doing both now for as long as I can remember. In the last year or so, I've begun writing poetry inspired by my stories, but it hasn't gone the other way yet. In the last couple years, I've also become a lyricist, as three of my poems have been set to original music and performed during church. Two of them are copyrighted and my composer-partner is working getting them published. ^_^ For FAWM (February Album Writing Month) last year, thirteen of the fourteen lyrics I wrote were for a series of stories I am also writing. I'm pretty ambitious in my goals for this year, as I plan to write songs for FAWM that I'll use for the play I write during Screnzy.
Anyway, it's nice to know that I'm not the only one out there writing poetry and prose.
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NaNo 2006: Steel Bars - 59,233 words
Screnzy 2007: The Enchanted Forest - won
NaNo 2007: Turning Beetles into Buttons - 51,949 words
Screnzy 2008: Simple Gifts - 43 pages total & Butterfly - 9 episodes
21,076 / 50,000
Jan 30, 2008 - 12 47
Yes! FAWM! I'm so excited for FAWM. Just another day and it'll be here!
----------~***~
Do what you love most.
And if it kills you someday-
Know you'll die happy.
51,949 / 50,000
Jan 30, 2008 - 13 30
That scares me just a little, actually. However, I did it last year, so I'm confident I can do it this year.
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NaNo 2006: Steel Bars - 59,233 words
Screnzy 2007: The Enchanted Forest - won
NaNo 2007: Turning Beetles into Buttons - 51,949 words
Screnzy 2008: Simple Gifts - 43 pages total & Butterfly - 9 episodes
50,008 / 50,000
May 28, 2008 - 13 56
I'm both.........can't wait for next year!
----------GIRL SINGER LOOKING FOR A BAND!!!!!
"When people tell me a knights job is all glory, I laugh and laugh. Sometimes I can stop laughing before they edge away and talk of soothing drinks."
"I bet when you get to the winner's circle, it's going to have
50,329 / 50,000
May 28, 2008 - 14 18
I guess I'm both... I wrote poetry before prose, and not much before that. I transitioned away from heavy poetry writing for a while, but have started to get back into that, and into songwriting, especially now that I have a band who are willing to do my songs, if I actually write them...
50,572 / 50,000
Jun 1, 2008 - 06 06
Somehow I'm a poet who doesn't know how to write poetry. So I write poetic prose. Go figure.
All I need is to learn the mechanics, the rhyming and scanning and all that stuff. I'm also learning songwriting. In Bad Company, Desiree writes poetry and her sister Charlie is a singer. So I'm putting some of Desi's poems and Charlie's songs in the story. Charlie even has writer's block during FAWM 2008! (Mine was even worse: I wrote nothing, not even a lyric.)
In prose, much of my best work involves dialogue. Maybe that reflects the fact that I learned how to write doing comics scripts.
----------NaNo '06: Black Science
NaNo '07: Bad Company
NaNo '08: Points of Authority
Script Frenzy '08: Spanner
Project Blog: Spanner's World