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Originally Posted by Namekuseijin
prose is primarily description and narration of external events
(lyrical) poetry is uttering the undescribable in your inner guts
regarding form, there's certainly a bit more effort into putting those utterances in either a sonorous and melodic package or in following certain structure very far from common everyday prose... poetry is regarding language as marble and a poem as sculpture.
I have to say I usually don't like a bit most of these self-published authors expecting a profit. The kind of guy who doesn't have a personal style because they don't want to woo possible costumers away and write in an overly polished sterile writing. They sound like they almost need to apologize for the reader to be, well, reading. It's dumbed down writing for a tweeter generation. we're fucked
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I have found more I really to read since getting an ereader. My want to read list is frightening in length. A very good thing overall but can be stressful as there is no way I can finish it and I add more every week
Last winter alone I stumbled upon four new authors first works that I thoroughly enjoyed and several books by authors who I had not read before that I also enjoyed. And of course many of my long time favorite authors are still alive and writing
While there may be a lot of unreadable material out there, the amount of readable and enjoyable books seems to be growing at as fast a rate as ever.
I don't begrudge anyone taking a shot at writing a book. If they are successful, good for them. If not, well at least they tried. Better than some ways of earning income
and not like I have to buy their book. And if I accidentally do buy a bad ugly book on occasion, well I have bought a lot of useless stuff in my lifetime and lived through it. Caveat emptor.
Helen