This advice from the poet Linda Gregg seems applicable for prose writers, too.
She's written this piece, The Art of Finding, as a prose poem. This is how it begins:
I believe that poetry at its best is found rather than written.
Traditionally, and for many people even today, poems have been
admired chiefly for their craftsmanship and musicality, the
handsomeness of language and the abundance of similes, along with
the patterning and rhymes. I respect and enjoy all that, but I would
not have worked so hard and so long at my poetry if it were primarily
the production of well-made objects, just as I would not have sacrificed
so much for love if love were mostly about pleasure.
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