--Turco, The Book of Forms, 2000, p.250
Let's talk about how you can work with post structuralism in your narrative writing, whatever your genre may be.
First, drop the formulaic writing whether it's prose, free verse, or rhyme. Think outside the parameters of prescribed, academic writing. What have you kept secret? How would you really like to express yourself in words. How would you structure your words, or not, how would you punctuate your words, or not, what style, or not, what tone, or not, what rhythm or not would you use.
I think of writing as being of three types which is a simplistic representation but it helps with clarity. I see and hear an academic prose or poetry, very orderly, very traditional, more often than not with retrospective bucolic references.
The other type of prose or poetry that I read and hear is a style I call non-traditional, not affiliated. These writers are their own literary movement. Their styles are unique.
If you don't want to write without structure entirely, or if you want to pick and chose what you use within traditional and non-traditional writing, that's fine. Now, there's three writing types. The third derived from a combination of the first two, like Charles Bukowski.
I allow post-structuralist theorists to guide me onto a freer plane between writing types. I receive encouragement from reading post-structural writing and philosophy. I call my style Tell-it-Like-Bukowski (tongue in cheek). Feel free to join me.
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I was on that plane, or point, of telling it like Bukowski, when I arrived at the idea for my half-fiction, half-memoir novella, entitled: Verity is Relative: Emma's Memoir. Within the covers are sexy fiction, a love story, true family life and post-structural poetry and narrative, that is engaging enough for both male and female readers. My wish is that the book will inspire and entertain you.
--e. smith sleigh, post structural poet and author
post-structural advocate and online pioneer for post-structural theory
founder The Post structuralism Institute