04-01-2017, 05:34 AM
Sometimes praise comes just because your work is even slightly less shit than the writers you're with.
IME, all poems are worth working on. Keep what critics like and rework what they don't. The poem may still be shit after five edit/crit cycles but I've learned some thing about that particular poem and the bigger picture, my own and the way my impressions land on readers. Sometimes I go back to the original and now know better how to keep and tweak it. On occassion it turns out there really was a decent core in there and I can end with something decent, but the process is a delicious torture that interests me, it's a way I enjoy spending my time. I may be two steps forward, one back, but in my world this is fun.
IME, all poems are worth working on. Keep what critics like and rework what they don't. The poem may still be shit after five edit/crit cycles but I've learned some thing about that particular poem and the bigger picture, my own and the way my impressions land on readers. Sometimes I go back to the original and now know better how to keep and tweak it. On occassion it turns out there really was a decent core in there and I can end with something decent, but the process is a delicious torture that interests me, it's a way I enjoy spending my time. I may be two steps forward, one back, but in my world this is fun.
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