No, that's what I meant, I'm just being a bitch. I've read very little
good
fan poetry, and I've read *one* fan poem that made me go "wow, I wish I could do that". And that even doesn't really count, because it was a sonnet cycle about The Gift. Which, while an amazing effort, it's not the kind of writing I'm into doing myself.
Whereas for fic *daily* I read stories that make me *ache* with the desire to be able to kick that much ass. Stories that could have very easily been written by fiction-writing professionals; stories by people who are better than I am and better maybe than I'll ever be.
I love fandom, and ficdom. I'm in love with it so much I think about it daily, and I'd like nothing better than to do well in it, have the people I respect and admire respect me in return. Isn't that a basic desire in any field? But I'm put out because (right now at least) my prose is not amazing or even very good. My poetry *is* very good-- I believe that. I wish I had the opportunity to contribute to fandom, which I love so much, in the way fic-writers do, with the thing I am strong at. But there's really no market that I've seen of yet.
I love poetry, but I rarely think in poetry. I can come up with near-poetic sentences, but I'm afraid my skills poem-wise lie in the William the Bloody Awful realm.
I can't write poetry. Actually, I can, but it sucks. Very much.
Any idiot can write doggrel. You know, you need a licence to drive a car or own a dog or even fish; you'd think there would be some sort of poetic licence.
Dude, chick never posted our StS, did she?
lm? I know she was still working on it. Don't know if she's finished it. I know that post-deadline subs will, so it's been said, eventually go up.
I'm just intensely curious, you know?
Dana! Hello. I've been in Internet hell.
Micole! I don't see you on IM.
I really wish there were a viable, exciting, brilliant, world of fan poetry comparable to ficdom.
Start one, Lizard. My poetry's not as good as yours, but I'd give real fic-poetry writing a go.
I have to leave for work in a few minutes, so I'm going to have to revisit/edit this post a little later on for clarity, but one of two things tend to happen with fan poetry. One, unless the reader is familiar with the series and its themes, the poem is going to lose much of its impact. Two, if the poem
is
completely accessible to the reader, then it would be truer to say that it was inspired by a certain series rather than to say that it is "fan-poetry."
In any case, I did post one poem based on an anime series. I think Ms Havisham would know about it (Trigun), but I'm not sure if the rest of you would be familiar with it. Here's the link, if you're interested. I'm not sure that the poem can be read outside the context of the series. There are several lines that gain much of their impact from things that happen or are mentioned throughout the course of the series. Unfortunately, these things cannot be explained within the course of the poem unless I want to annotate the hell out of it, and personally, I think that looking at an annotate poem is like looking at a dissected frog rather than the live creature merrily hopping around and eating mosquitoes.
In a fic, however, it would be easy to slide in little bits of backstory that would explain things to readers unfamiliar to the series, or that would remind fans of certain events.
I hope this makes sense. If it doesn't, revisit this post in an hour or two, and maybe I'll have had the chance to tidy things up a bit.
Eek! Gotta run!!!
