I think the wordcount equivalent for sestina is a little low right now. I didn't manage to finish mine in time for FiaB, but I have written them before, and sestinas take me twice as long on average as sonnets or villanelles. They're also twice as long words-wise (39 lines to a sonnet's 14 and villanelle's 19). So it seems like a sestina should be worth more equivalent wordcount than a sonnet.
But I totally get it if you don't want to make that one (1) poem worth 2k where all the other poems are worth 1k. :)
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Date: 2022-12-11 03:29 pm (UTC)I think the wordcount equivalent for sestina is a little low right now. I didn't manage to finish mine in time for FiaB, but I have written them before, and sestinas take me twice as long on average as sonnets or villanelles. They're also twice as long words-wise (39 lines to a sonnet's 14 and villanelle's 19). So it seems like a sestina should be worth more equivalent wordcount than a sonnet.
But I totally get it if you don't want to make that one (1) poem worth 2k where all the other poems are worth 1k. :)