04-12-2016, 09:20 AM
Thank you, Milo. Your advise to Jameso was very useful to me, too. It makes complete sense!
(03-22-2016, 07:01 AM)milo Wrote:(03-22-2016, 06:04 AM)jameso Wrote: Ok thanks for the feedback folks. Interesting to hear some of our language's history. I had just been thinking before you replied that I should edit my preface because 'fantasy epic'doesn't really fit. I'll do that now.For a number of reasons:
Out of interest, I know it's also mentioned as a rookie error in this forum, why are poets taught not to write in the old style?
1. You are writing it wrong. It is no longer the way you read and write so you are inconsistently applying it, much like writing in Spanglish or broken English.
2. Because it is not the language we speak or use today it reads contrived, artificial or faux-poetic.

