I didn’t start out as a Poet. I started out writing stories. Later on, I wrote plays, articles, and worked in business writing. For the past several years, I spent the majority of my writing time on writing poems. Lately, though, I have gone back to writing more fiction than poetry.
I have several ideas churning around and they take shape as a story more often than a poem. It’s fun for me to write fiction as there are several ways to write it. I can even include poetry here and there in my stories as well.
Many years ago when I was a kid, I was browsing the local bookstore at the time. Sadly, it closed but we do have a new one back in town now. Way back then, I came across a book on writing that talked about knowing what form to put your idea in: song, poem, story, article, script, play, and so on. That always stuck with me.
Sometimes, if you’re watching a movie or TV show or reading a book, do you ever think it’s too long, there are too many characters, the setting seems off and so on? It’s probably because the form doesn’t fit the actual writing idea.
I am a poet and writer. How about you?