05-08-2015, 10:57 AM
I write mostly from my own POV and if I am going to spend time on something I prefer it to be joyous. I think it is a shortcoming as a writer and have admiration for writers with the imagination and grasp of the human condition past their own to write from as many varied POV as there are possibilities.
I was going to bring up the NaPM prompts too. Last year I had a problem when asked to write a poem from the opposite point of view of my own. I wasted the dark side prompt by complaining about other people writing from the dark side. I wrote in a form to at least give myself some sort of challenge but I'm the sort that thinks real life is scary enough and just don't get the nightmare as pleasure thing. I was proud of myself that I managed the palinode, even if I just wrote a silly thing in response to my first silly thing.
It's the same with forum personalities. Some people enjoy the opportunity to build someone other than themselves. I'm just me for better, worse or who gives a shit, and choose to interact as if everyone is but I'm not surprised when someone reveals a talent for being more than one person at at time. It's just one of the many talents I don't have.
I also was on a forum where someone posted very good poetry about cruelty in many forms. I read them and he really was very good but they sure weren't my favorites and when he moved to another forum I didn't follow. I can respect it, it's just not how I choose to spend my time and remaining brain cells.
I was going to bring up the NaPM prompts too. Last year I had a problem when asked to write a poem from the opposite point of view of my own. I wasted the dark side prompt by complaining about other people writing from the dark side. I wrote in a form to at least give myself some sort of challenge but I'm the sort that thinks real life is scary enough and just don't get the nightmare as pleasure thing. I was proud of myself that I managed the palinode, even if I just wrote a silly thing in response to my first silly thing.
It's the same with forum personalities. Some people enjoy the opportunity to build someone other than themselves. I'm just me for better, worse or who gives a shit, and choose to interact as if everyone is but I'm not surprised when someone reveals a talent for being more than one person at at time. It's just one of the many talents I don't have.
I also was on a forum where someone posted very good poetry about cruelty in many forms. I read them and he really was very good but they sure weren't my favorites and when he moved to another forum I didn't follow. I can respect it, it's just not how I choose to spend my time and remaining brain cells.
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