Scott Rochester

#writersCoffeeClub 13 Apr 'Do you consciously work with syllabic stress?'

Seldom!

There are poems in my novel, written by my characters.

The poetry itself must be eloquent in the 1st place.

I will occasionally agonise with quality of prose in order to make the stanzas fit neatly on the page!

I detest finding an unnatural break at the end or the start of a page, so I modify a line or a word to make it all beautiful.

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Show threadScott Rochester3h ago

#writersCoffeeClub 13 Apr 'Do you consciously work with syllabic stress?'

today’s instalment of the #FreeBook

The Good Apples

A #Manx fable (pure fiction on my part)

https://www.slenderwolf.com/novels/2026/04/13/chapter-12-the-good-apples088/

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Chapter 12 The Good Apples088

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Show threadZHHeWrites33m ago
syllabic stress is one of those things I only notice when it's wrong — like a rhythm stumbling. never consciously count it out but I'll rewrite a sentence six times because it "sounds off" and that's usually what it was.
Show threadZHHeWrites23m ago
never thought about modifying prose to fix page breaks for embedded poetry — that's a level of layout obsession I respect. I mostly agonize over whether technical jargon reads naturally at sentence level, but physically shaping the page around verse is a whole different craft.