Quote:
Originally Posted by breathless
This being a text league, as far as I can see, people want two names and a city with some stupid plot twist that m night shyamalamadingdongus could script while on ketamine... You seem, at least write like you do, verses that would still stand in audio. That's always been my problem with text leagues, people bitch about not catching the "flow" because they aren't proficient in it, and then give negative opinions because we aren't allowed to explain/audiate ourselves, yet still get labeled as needing to improve because fuckers are stuck in text format... And we also aren't given a set of symbols to denotedissonant syllables, expressions, run on lines, stops, extra "jazz style timing" ect. .. A pm with Adonis I had for example... I explained exactly why people dont catch his flow, and all he could say is... Well, thats not how I would write it it in real life, but he couldn't provide how it would sound/read in real life because these text heads are stuck on how they already want to interpret things, rather than how the writers want them to be interpreted
|
Sure, we are. It's called punctuation.
If you stick with a rhyme pattern, or general cadence, your reader will pick up on the 'flow'.
No matter how slow or fast you read a bar, the vowel sounds, hard and soft consonants, assonance/alliteration/ etc. all fall in the same order relative to one another.
sometimes you'll run into people who don't get your rhyming, and theres nothing you can do. but i will say that between when I started writing and now, ive developed more of a sense for flow...
that being said, bad flow only negatively affects your verse when the opponent does it really well, or you had very simplistic or dropped rhymes.
in any case, patience and an open mind will get you far
I MEANT POLIO CONVENTION.
@
YDK i dont believe in chickpeas