What Are The Sucessful Elements Of A Topical Verse
 

I thought that imagery and story was a huge part...apparently not..so enlighten me...

originality in my book kills anything..but definitly the depth as well..imagery is always good so the reader can depict the story better...and story goes along the lines of originality...some people aren't original no matter how hard they try...takes an autistic mind to really capture insanity in a piece...

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that explains my understanding a bit better...but there have got to be other elements according to the things I have seen gone down...

I say, that imagery and originality are important, but without the delivery and the right expansion of words, it wont be good.

So what about those cats who rely on a dictionary/thesauras to get there words..than it's not original than they do something to try to make themselves feel good..

dont use a thesausas, a gud way to expand is use slang sometimes. or subsitute words for words, making it seem like your telling the story from your view.

Exactly..people don't fuckin do that do..they use cheater methodz..

Yep, fronting like there j.k rowling.

with my topicals i go for imagry, content, and wordplay
i ususally try and tell a story with mine...

White Lite...u wont elevate u suk so dont worry about it

imagery...originality....flips in the story...and word play all crucial parts to a topical ...in some pieces maybe not word play so much but it all helps to make a dope piece

~posted by deacon..couldnt have said it better~

"originality" in my book kills anything..but definitly the depth as well..imagery is always good so the reader can depict the story better...and story goes along the lines of originality...some people aren't original no matter how hard they try...takes an artistic mind to really capture insanity in a piece...

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well deacon I had thought so as well....ridiculous fucks

<---got a 29 on his ACT's....uses the big words and doesn't have to look them up! Only when I'm arguing/debating though. Who the fuck wants to talk like that all the time?

Sorry, forgot to reply to the topic. Imagery...orginality....a fresh concept on the topic. One that isn't predictable. Something no one else could think of.

It needs to flow, have internals and multi's, portray the topic using imagery and emotion, have a good writers voice and word choice placed behind it.

Originality
Creativity
A story line

Let your imagination run....Lord knows I have and can hardly keep up with it.

can you have too much imagination?

emotion
personality of yourself
descriptive(imagry)
n if ya don't have a flow...
it ruins everything

the flow dosent matter but it can make it better...
the piece should be somewhat thought provoking
and make the reader assume that he or she is a
member of the story

or

you can do it like a spoken word piece if any of you
have ever read in front of large audiences and take this
shit kinda seriously..but people wont feel your energy if
its not done for real..outsifde this..everyone has a certain
way they flip syllables for their own satisfaction

or

you can do or un-listen/read anything ive mentioned

Its a combination of various elements, you cant really compose a piece based on one particular thing like 'imagery' or whatever

MAIN THING...make sure you enjoy what you are doing
dont ever make a verse (topical or whatever) if you dont want to
the quality will drop..

You lot have to learn the difference between Inspiration and originality... when someone inspires you, you ain't biting him/her, jus learning from him/her...

Can the content that you write about be a detriment to success?