A New Look at Stories

[Jaleco]

There was something that I was wondering about. I'm more of a poet than a writer, so I was wondering if a story written in poem form would still be submittable for judging.:confused:

[Visla Eraclaire]

I see no reason why not. You can accomplish all the elements of the rubric that way, albeit with some real sincere effort. I doubt it would score extraordinarily well unless you're a very very skilled poet, but I think it would be interesting to see...

I wouldn't pull it outside of a solo though, simply because the anti-bunnying rules are complicated enough using prose... with poetry... yikes

[Karuka]

It is allowed. I've done it. It is hard, and it didn't score well...but we were using an odd form that neither of us were very familiar with. It was fun to do, but as Visla said...it's hard to score well outside of prose.

[Yari Rafanas]

Years ago, Sighter Tnailog and some other dude had a battle composed of nothing but poem posts. It was an experiment, for sure.

Unless your threadmates are down for trying to write a poem or two as well, the thread itself will probably be pretty confusing.

[The Writing Writer]

I get away with using poetry as dialog. the only dialog of this character in fact. Writing an entire thread that was nothing but would be a real challenge. I read a quest once where a user did that. Very well I might add. I wish I could remember their name...

[Tainted Bushido]

I want to say it was Bard, but I'm not sure. Yes, someone did do an entire quest as a poem, however his failing was that he did the entire quest in a post.

So, it can be hard to stretch it out, for certain. Especially when you're trying to do crazy stuff like Iambic Pentameter. So good luck if you wish to do such a thing.

[Alydia Ettermire]

I want to say it was Bard, but I'm not sure. Yes, someone did do an entire quest as a poem, however his failing was that he did the entire quest in a post.

So, it can be hard to stretch it out, for certain. Especially when you're trying to do crazy stuff like Iambic Pentameter. So good luck if you wish to do such a thing.

Just to be contrary....Iambic Pentameter is the closest we get to natural speech in poetic meter. And if you don't feel the need to make it rhyme (thus creating Blank Verse), it's the easiest to work with. The triple beat ones get messy, for sure, though.

[Jaleco]

As long as I don't try to make each post a Petrachan, I think I'll be fine, lol.

[Jericho]

Just to be contrary....Iambic Pentameter is the closest we get to natural speech in poetic meter. And if you don't feel the need to make it rhyme (thus creating Blank Verse), it's the easiest to work with. The triple beat ones get messy, for sure, though.

Just to be contrarier, this is a lie perpetuated by the Illuminati in an attempt to enthrone Shakespeare as God. :P

Not really. But I personally disagree with the whole "closest match to natural cadence" theory. It is close, yes. But in many circumstances, trochaic speech is the natural pattern. And who really speaks in ten-syllable blocks? I know my typical voice patterns tend closer to 14. (And how big of a poetic meter nut do you have to be to notice such a thing? Well...) I don't think any one metric pattern can claim to be the single closest pattern to natural cadence.

Buuuut back to the issue at hand.

A quest in the form of an epic poem would be...epic. :)

[Shadar]

Years ago, Sighter Tnailog and some other dude had a battle composed of nothing but poem posts. It was an experiment, for sure.

Unless your threadmates are down for trying to write a poem or two as well, the thread itself will probably be pretty confusing.

It's me! I'm the other dude! *waves frantically for attention*

(My account was called "The Poet". Such originality.)

I was bested, because he is Sighter, but it was fun. Even Leopold's judgement post was a poem.

Kudos to anyone who can pull it off well. Personally, I barely know how to spell Iambic and probably, at least these days, couldn't do much beyond the, "Tada! A poem!" novelty.

[Yari Rafanas]

Yeah as soon as I saw your name in this thread I remembered it was you. Good times from the Poet and Sighter.

[Jaleco]

I started a poem quest. It's in Scara Brae if any of you level 0's or 1's wish to join in!

[Jaleco]

Yeah... that thread's suffering... lol