I write like I'm stuck in a 19th C absurdist novel, but

>>8317766
Find and join a writing group/workshop. It really does help. Also, practice more and go into the critique threads with every new things you write.

>>8317766
>Saying half and trying to mean double

Might be good practise, but only practise. Otherwise you're almost asking to be misunderstood or not at all.

Have you tried reading/writing poetry? It might help you condense things and build atmospheres that help your meaning get across.

>>8317766
Also the way you write makes me curious. I want to see some of this , even unfinished.

>>8317808
I've been interested in poetry for a while, and find I have a good ear for rhythm - but have to admit I'm quite intimidated by it. I've written some basic free-verse, but know really little about the subject compared to prose.

I would especially appreciate a good guide on how to write poetry, something that lays out the basic rhythm schemes and jargon, and perhaps some poets other anons dig to help guide me. I like Larkin, always thought he would've browsed this place or /pol/.

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>>8317816
This is a piece I've been wrangling with over this week. I have a reasonable ending and climax in mind, but again, I feel over-ambition and a complex plot are muddying it. I'm also afraid that the tone is too classical, not real enough. What annoys me, is that there's a philosophy that I really want to communicate.

There's a few more tossed up pages if you like it, however.

>>8317843
Are you the guy who posted in the Critique thread about Barnaby waking up in a hospital room?

>>8317843
cringing so fucking hard right now

"I would advise that imaginary young man to study the classics; let him not try to be modern, because he already is; let him not try to be a man of a different epoch, to be a classical writer, because, indubitably, he cannot be this, since he is irreparably a young man of the twentieth century."

>>8317843
i really like this

>>8317949
Yes, that was another re-write and one I'm still not happy with.

I think I'm going to take a week off from writing, and just read and think. I feel like there are many things I want to communicate, but I'm not taking the time to properly and lucidly form them.

>>8317827
Stephen Fry's "The Ode Less Travelled" is something I've been meaning to read; it seems to be almost a poetry textbook.

Also you may be interested in Colridge's "Biographia Literaria".

As for poets, I enjoyed what Coleridge I've read. At the moment I'm reading Mallarme, Rimbaud, Baudelaire, MacNiece, and Auden. Oh and I read Gaudete by Ted Hughes - his style is unique and fantastically vivid.

>>8319094
Cool. Just keep in mind my other critique then. Good luck.

>>8321121
Thank you anon, I will. Currently reading Across the River and Into the Sea for some small guidance.

>>8320120
Thank you also, I'll order the Fry (I'm rather fond of him, just as a person) and check out some of those poets.