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[ConstanceEvermuse]

Apologies if I've overlooked the answers I seek, or if I'm in the wrong place. There's a lot of information, and I keep getting lost.



I have a lot of scribbles in paragraph form, not unlike journal entry ramblings. They don't qualify as fiction, and I wouldn't call it poetry, so I'm unsure if such pieces are acceptable to submit on Lit. A friend suggested breaking them into lines, but they'd have no rhythm or rhyme. Any thoughts or recommendations would be greatly appreciated.



I have one that I've attempted to use as something similar to visual poetry, but in preview before submitting, everything slid to the left margin. Looks right in draft form though. Google search gave me a bunch of technical stuff my poor lil brain can't compute. CSS padding and HTML and HTML5, along with "obsolete" and "unsupported." I didn't fully comprehend the first sentence, much less anything that followed thereafter. One recommendation to post as a JPEG image to preserve visual aspects across a wide array of screen sizes. Again, no idea how to do that, or if it's acceptable here. Tax code makes more sense to me. Can anyone point me in the right direction, or tell me it can't be done here?



Many thanks!

 

[SmilingLez]

Apologies if I've overlooked the answers I seek, or if I'm in the wrong place. There's a lot of information, and I keep getting lost.



I have a lot of scribbles in paragraph form, not unlike journal entry ramblings. They don't qualify as fiction, and I wouldn't call it poetry, so I'm unsure if such pieces are acceptable to submit on Lit. A friend suggested breaking them into lines, but they'd have no rhythm or rhyme. Any thoughts or recommendations would be greatly appreciated.



I have one that I've attempted to use as something similar to visual poetry, but in preview before submitting, everything slid to the left margin. Looks right in draft form though. Google search gave me a bunch of technical stuff my poor lil brain can't compute. CSS padding and HTML and HTML5, along with "obsolete" and "unsupported." I didn't fully comprehend the first sentence, much less anything that followed thereafter. One recommendation to post as a JPEG image to preserve visual aspects across a wide array of screen sizes. Again, no idea how to do that, or if it's acceptable here. Tax code makes more sense to me. Can anyone point me in the right direction, or tell me it can't be done here?



Many thanks!

Welcome

Welcome, You are in the right place. Free verse is the wild West of poetry. The only rule, have fun!!

I took your paragraph and rearranged the words in free verse.


I have a lot of scribbles
paragraph form, journal entry ramblings,
the kind that don't fit neatly
into fiction or poetry.

They exist in that uncertain space.
Not quite one thing, not quite another.

A friend said: break them into lines.
But there's no rhythm to catch,
no rhyme to anchor them.

Still, I wonder.
Are they acceptable?
Could they belong somewhere
on Lit, in a magazine,
in the hands of someone
who knows what to do with the in-between?

 

[ConstanceEvermuse]

Thanks for responding!

So I just break wherever it tickles my fancy... Wild West indeed.

Thank you so much for your help

 

[SmilingLez]

Thanks for responding!

So I just break wherever it tickles my fancy... Wild West indeed.

Thank you so much for your help

You are so welcome. Exactly - whatever tickles your fancy best. Plus no need for fancy formatting.

 

[ConstanceEvermuse]

So something like this won't work here?

 

[Angeline]

Hi. You can submit a poem to Literotica and ask for special indents or space between lines, strophes, etc. However if you want to do lots of unusual margins or centerings and such your best bet is to submit your work as an illustrated poem. I haven't submitted one for years but I believe you can submit your poem the regular way with a note that your poem is in an attachment you include. You can read about illustrations here. There are also guidelines for submitting illustrated material and you can find those and other answers about how to attach material for your poem or story in frequently asked questions here. You can also seek help on the Editor's Forum or even the Visual Artist's Corner.

Hope this helps!