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Scrittura Poetics

What makes for quality prose and poetry?

Since taking over Scrittura, I have attempted to make its niche on Medium a place where quality stories are published. Not that there isn’t plenty of quality out there, but we strive to also bring out the best images you can write. We’re not a publication that simply hits “Publish”. We look over, carefully, all your stories and try to help out by pointing you in directions to write the strongest pieces you can.

One of our editors recently made the observation that, with regards to the comments they had left on a piece for further work, it was perceived as pointing out mistakes. What they were trying to do was help the writer put together their best piece, and this goes beyond “mistakes”. I know that with a term that is as fluid as “quality”, there’s bound to be a whole swath of interpretation. Indeed, there are quite a few of us writing, after all. And we’re not all engaged in the same project; or, the project is the same, to write, but the ways we all go about engaging with our various subjects, passions, can be radically different.

Hel. I’ve probably changed my stylistic devices five, six, maybe more times over the past year. True, I forget what I’ve written soon after it’s published (my memory just isn’t what it used to be). But I believe, more accurately, we believe (at Scrittura), that there are just a few basic properties of quality writing that we can carry across various writing styles.

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