03-06-2016, 08:47 PM
And yet I thought I had given up on this thread again. But it's meandering into different areas. Confessional of sorts follows
So being a new member here, I hope I haven't been bugging folks; indeed, this is the longest I have ever been active in an internet forum of any kind. It's not a joke when I say that it's because I generally live in real life, not on the internet. I have no cable TV, facebook, twitter, etc but I have been more computer savvy than most since the 80's when I was playing with unix machines etc. The internet, especially the forums, are filled with people who have really stopped thinking and don't interact in correct social ways; just pushing pieces of dogma back and forth, getting angrier and angrier. I get tired of that fast.
Here that is not the case. However I do miss what it's like to workshop a poem in real life, reading it, hearing some people respond one way while others a different way. I feel I have gotten some very real support and that people have appreciated my attempts to help their writing get better. I see folks that take things in a crazy way (taking crits on their poems as ad hominem for example) drifting away quickly. Sometimes amusingly so. Sometimes ... very quickly....
Things come in waves, and I suspect if you have been doing this a while you could likely go back to last year or 2 and see if you were this disaffected as well in late winter, only to have the crits/forums/people improve later. More people come in crops, some better some not so much.
Thanks for putting up with me. Back to real life.
So being a new member here, I hope I haven't been bugging folks; indeed, this is the longest I have ever been active in an internet forum of any kind. It's not a joke when I say that it's because I generally live in real life, not on the internet. I have no cable TV, facebook, twitter, etc but I have been more computer savvy than most since the 80's when I was playing with unix machines etc. The internet, especially the forums, are filled with people who have really stopped thinking and don't interact in correct social ways; just pushing pieces of dogma back and forth, getting angrier and angrier. I get tired of that fast.
Here that is not the case. However I do miss what it's like to workshop a poem in real life, reading it, hearing some people respond one way while others a different way. I feel I have gotten some very real support and that people have appreciated my attempts to help their writing get better. I see folks that take things in a crazy way (taking crits on their poems as ad hominem for example) drifting away quickly. Sometimes amusingly so. Sometimes ... very quickly....
Things come in waves, and I suspect if you have been doing this a while you could likely go back to last year or 2 and see if you were this disaffected as well in late winter, only to have the crits/forums/people improve later. More people come in crops, some better some not so much.
Thanks for putting up with me. Back to real life.