Someone had to start the discussion in this new community, so I figured I’d give it a shot!
I discovered that I have a knack for script writing, so I usually stick to prose and focus on driving the action through my characters’ dialogue. I need to work more on describing scenes in a way that isn’t rooted in stage directions.
I can appreciate good poetry, but am generally not a fan of “free verse”. I prefer the challenge of writing something with a meter, or has a rhyme scheme. Re-writing song lyrics is a fun way to play with that, but maybe I listened to too much Weird Al growing up.
So, if you had to pick a side… poetry or prose?
I’ve always preferred free verse poetry. My prose is clunky and doesn’t have a very natural flow to it. My poetry doesn’t either, but I utilise that intentionally to write very viscerally to give the sensation of magical realism, after a fashion.