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Collective Memory
Excerpt from All Knowledge entry.
Freeform Fiction
Introduction
[…] Although the name “freeform fiction” suggests an expansive and roving landscape of different styles of fiction — each loosed of the forms that fiction traditionally encompassed — in reality, the works all tended to share stylistic similarities to the first works published as Freeform Fiction. Not to be confused with “experimental fiction,” whose name is deliberately too vague to describe the works entailing it, “freeform” was more a reference to freeform poetry than to the removal of fiction’s forms. Before freeform, or free verse, poetry, poems tended to follow set rhyming and meter, and the structure was set in the tradition of poetry. Freeform poetry unhinged poems from their prior restrictions, allowing poets to create surprising and unique works. freeform fiction is generally fiction that involves the interlacing of free verse poetry into a unique work. Some authors place a lot of emphasis on the relationships between “poems,” making these more traditional stories, while others read more like groups of unrelated poems in which the author insists a story exists. […]The All Knowledge Community