01-16-2012, 07:23 AM
Leanne makes a good point. I posted a 'poem' called 'Contrast' (at least I thought it was a poem), but the girls (Leanne, addy and Aish) set me straight fairly quickly. The one piece of crit that Aish gave me included the line
Aish Wrote:The original presentation is too rambling, even for prose.At first I was quite stunned by this comment, but now when I look back I can see just what she meant. I had basically written a short-short-short story! If someone wrote a novella and called it a poem, I would probably never get past the first page because I would feel that I couldn't trust the author. What I mean is that I wouldn't waste my time with someone who couldn't properly label their writing because I would assume (maybe inaccurately) that they must not know what they were doing.