I want to write fanfiction in the form of epic poetry

DonZabu

This is a horrible idea, isn't it?

InsanityAddict

Yes. So naturally, you must do it.

TheConductor

This a bad idea."I want to write fanfiction in the form of epic poetry"

This is a fixed idea "I want to write fanfiction in the form of epic poetry"

InsanityAddict

Wake me, oh Muse, and through my fingers type

of the show that launched a thousand shippings

with forums flaming and characters derailed

of fanart whose anatomical proportions failed

involving female cast and strippings

of recolours of animation cels torn

from which memes and OCs were born

of the dreaded self-insert

which a veritable hatedom birth

DonZabu

^ Go on.

ClockworkUniverse

Lots of epic poetry already is fanfiction, really.

TheConductor

Like the Divine Comedy.

DonZabu

Be even better if it was in dactylic hexameter, like in Longfellow's Evangeline.

glennmagusharvey

I almost wondered when our forum's founder had written an NGE fanfic.

Also, I want to write fanfiction in the form of two covert operatives' logs.

captainbrass

Another example of fanfiction as epic poetry is Milton's Paradise Lost, where the characters and plot are based on the Biblical story of creation or later stories that developed from it (like that of Lucifer).

^ DO IT. Seriously, it might be good.

 

DonZabu

By songs of heroes' muse, let my words ring like chimes for the Dunmer.

Sound for the Dunmer themselves, for their strength and their brazen demeanor.

Sound for their heartland of Morrowind, beast of a number of faces.

Sound for their houses and clans, so replete with the strife of tradition.

Sound for their looming Red Mountain, where utmost corruption did fester.

Much like they sound for themselves, let them ring all together in rev'rence.

Playing the song of their great hero, who fell the old evil that lurked there.

Grasped the still-beating heart destiny called his own, and led to salvation the.

People that called him their guide; but alas, through salvation's gate did they.

Fall to the depths of oblivion; tell us, dear Muse, how that happened.

Wicked223

Just make sure you actually have a decent knowledge of poetic meter and shit like that before you start.