Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-25975226-20150226070959/@comment-25975226-20150227072613

Underscorre wrote:

Natalo wrote: (I find it funny that this site has 'rules' for poetry, considering that that isn't really the point of poetry unless you're talking about syllables etc. because consider free verse poetry, that has no limitations. Anyway, just funny to me :) ) Obviously free verse has no set structure or rhyming pattern, but it still needs to be engaging and, as was said above, flow. Just because the genre you're writing in has no rules, doesn't mean we have to abandon all our rules when deciding whether or not it should stay. I know this, and I wasn't arguing or having a go. I just find it funny that there are still rules required in an artistic way of writing. I'm not saying that there shouldn't be, obviously some standards need to be set. It's just funny how rules can be applied to something not meant to have any, if you know what I mean?