
THE PLOT IS IN THE BEAT Pt 1
I am crafting my writing by breaking up my current work - a novel with the working title of S E V E N T E E N - into efficient excerpts. I find this method to be an effective way for fine honing my shit. It’s a necessary process for me because I am a persnickety writer. Tuning up passages as separate entities is one way I can turn prose into poetry as a standalone hybrid. Present day poetry dressed up as prose is too unusual as a writing genre to have a body of rules and that’s the thrill of it for me. People who write prose/poetry get to blaze their own trail. which also means it’s also a lonely trail.
Part 2 coming up: The Trick Is in the Words