06-30-2016, 07:42 PM
Both are equally important when I sit down to edit as long as they are specific.
If a few readers like a word, line or idea that I doubted I am less likely to mess with it and and probably won't trash it entirely. If even one reader gives me a juicy reason for liking something I will try to protect it.
If a few readers are bothered by a word or line or idea I will poke at it endlessly to try to get it right, sometimes replacing or cutting the whole of it. Often something clearly better will come out of it, eventually
Sometimes no matter how many readers don't like something I can't let it go, that's between me and the poem, each comment is still important, each has made my brain work as hard as it can to consider the alternatives.
If a few readers like a word, line or idea that I doubted I am less likely to mess with it and and probably won't trash it entirely. If even one reader gives me a juicy reason for liking something I will try to protect it.
If a few readers are bothered by a word or line or idea I will poke at it endlessly to try to get it right, sometimes replacing or cutting the whole of it. Often something clearly better will come out of it, eventually
Sometimes no matter how many readers don't like something I can't let it go, that's between me and the poem, each comment is still important, each has made my brain work as hard as it can to consider the alternatives.
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