In a recent review of “In the Arms of Love” on www.culturecourt.com – what a great name for a web site – the critic called me a musical poet. What a wonderful compliment. I would always and forever rather be a poet than a novelist, even though the novelist has to have such a great understanding of the language, a grasp of the storytelling techniques that make a novel so great.
The poet just has to get the emotion across…whether he uses one word or a thousand, while the novelist has to worry about plot and characters.