06-01-2024, 06:15 AM
Critique to me is just your honest thoughts on something, trying to be helpful to the writer. Everything other than that is not critique.
'I like this because of x, I don't like this because of y. This works, but this doesn't - it might be better if z'.
Usually right after I write something, I love it, and then after some distance, I no longer love most of them. Some few I still like after reading them a few months after they're written.
I may disagree with some critique while the poem is fresh, and then if I come back to it later, I might agree with some critiques I disagreed with before.
I often find it difficult to workshop my poems because of this, it would be much easier for me to revise poems after a few months gap, but by then I'm usually on to something new and the old ones are in the rear view mirror. I find the critique useful even if I don't always action them, I think I absorb what people say in the critiques in to my future writing, even if I disagree in the moment.
I think many times I have not revised a poem, but a few years later written a poem with the same central idea/feeling/theme, that is essentially an edited version of a previous poem.
'I like this because of x, I don't like this because of y. This works, but this doesn't - it might be better if z'.
Usually right after I write something, I love it, and then after some distance, I no longer love most of them. Some few I still like after reading them a few months after they're written.
I may disagree with some critique while the poem is fresh, and then if I come back to it later, I might agree with some critiques I disagreed with before.
I often find it difficult to workshop my poems because of this, it would be much easier for me to revise poems after a few months gap, but by then I'm usually on to something new and the old ones are in the rear view mirror. I find the critique useful even if I don't always action them, I think I absorb what people say in the critiques in to my future writing, even if I disagree in the moment.
I think many times I have not revised a poem, but a few years later written a poem with the same central idea/feeling/theme, that is essentially an edited version of a previous poem.