Which Foot to Start On

[wasellajam]

My first thing was posting three poems in less than five minutes and not giving any feedback anywhere else, as I wasn't interested in reading anyone else's poetry.

It was also the first time I'd used the Internet since 2002. And I was simply looking for places to dump what I'd written over the last decade and then forgetting about it.

I wasn't aware that there were online communities where people talked to each other. I thought it was like a do it yourself publishing thing.

Then billy told me what the site was about. I didn't read the rules when I came on the site because I didn't care. I also posted on other sites like that. People made all kinds of positive comments and even marked some of my poems as having won a prize, which didn't seem very impressive as almost every poem anybody wrote had a prize, and the prize was simply someone pressing a button saying that you had won a prize.

Bimbo didn't want to be a member until he realized that all the other members where Betty Boop.


Give each new person a name under their username instead of Newbie based on their first poem. Sometimes just make it something random. For instance, under Fruitiper's name, write
Listen; your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground!

 So coherent but an ending with a bang . 
But that actually is a good idea, makes someone feel noticed and part of the group. Only problem is you would need a mod with time on their hands to do it and they probably have enough on their plates already.




 So watchable