tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5519912440753252776.post8827932178316584631..comments2023-06-12T17:08:36.320+01:00Comments on How Publishing <i>Really</i> Works: Guest Review: The Anatomy Of Prose, By Marjorie BoultonJane Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03411253302725735470noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5519912440753252776.post-66137117277975308902010-04-03T08:08:42.415+01:002010-04-03T08:08:42.415+01:00This is interesting indeed. Although Stephen Fry ...This is interesting indeed. Although Stephen Fry focuses on poetry, and I write prose, I found 'The Ode Less Travelled' similarly useful in helping me understand how and why some passages worked better than others.Queeniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06988379866736219329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5519912440753252776.post-23403678626228840522010-03-31T13:09:26.031+01:002010-03-31T13:09:26.031+01:00The analysis in that book sounds both terrific and...The analysis in that book sounds both terrific and terrifying. I know that many writers have an "ear" for writing effective sentences and that others work hard to revise theirs to finally sound right. I grant that there is a quantification of it all. But I dislike the fact that even creative writing can be reduced to rules and equations. A part of me wants to hang onto the fanciful notion that it is still an intuitive process that is best left mysterious. (I suppose it can be both.)Paul Lambhttp://www.paullamb.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5519912440753252776.post-24203767181446426882010-03-29T13:29:33.291+01:002010-03-29T13:29:33.291+01:00This reminds me of reading the fascinating commmen...This reminds me of reading the fascinating commmentaries by Dame Edith Sitwell in the collection "The Atlantic Book of British and American Poetry" which she edited in (I think) the 'fifties. She wrote illuminating little essays about euphonious rhythm and sound in poetry in her introductions to certain of the featured poets. I have never written a poem since without a dim back-of-the-mind echo of her wisdom helping me to sort out whether it "works" or not.Imogenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12811393485894960485noreply@blogger.com