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Jodi Cleghorn has always loved the idea of writing a stage or screen play yet two failed attempts at Script Frenzy seem to indicate her talents are best served in prose.
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In addition to being "craftsmen," fiction writers are also expected to be portrait painters in prose.
Book Reviewing 2010
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The hard part, for me, was learning to create arc and linearity in prose.
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Sure comics had cross-overs all the time, but until I saw these books, I just never thought of it happening in prose.
Six Stories From My Youth and What I Learned From Them « BAHAY TALINHAGA 2009
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It is such a different way of writing – even for someone who really enjoys writing dialogue in prose.
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Many of his later works took the idea of free verse to the extremes of lacking all rhyme and metre so that they are little different from short ideas or memos, which could well have been written in prose.
d.h. lawrence | we are transmitters « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008
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Meyer is a horrible writer, the plot is pointless and fulll of holes, the book is most definately an “overwrought emo song told in prose.”
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Twilight is, when you break it down, an overwrought emo song told in prose.
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In other words, poetry is a more concise way of saying what might be longer in prose.
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Many of his later works took the idea of free verse to the extremes of lacking all rhyme and metre so that they are little different from short ideas or memos, which could well have been written in prose.
March « 2008 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008
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