05-30-2012, 08:45 AM
As far as I am concerned the problem is always with the writer, especially in terms of clarity. It is my responsibility to clearly get across to the reader what I intend. Some of course disagree with this and want to take refuge in being a blank slate sort of writer, but that probably speaks more to their lack of having anything of value to say. I expect to have something to say, so if you don't here whatever it is, then it is a clarity issue in some way. This piece is trying at best, and my focus was probably not near where it needed to be in order to convey what I wished.
It shouldn't need an explanation, and in my defense the note wasn't one. More of a declaration acknowledging a debt, and that I was playing off that, not trying to steal it. As a general stance I hate trying to say what I wrote is about. If it is not clear then I need to go make it more clear, not write something that tries to justify a poem clearly lacking. So don't worry about hurting my feelings. I'd rather have terse or blunt feedback, than diplomatic crap that says nothing.
Dale
It shouldn't need an explanation, and in my defense the note wasn't one. More of a declaration acknowledging a debt, and that I was playing off that, not trying to steal it. As a general stance I hate trying to say what I wrote is about. If it is not clear then I need to go make it more clear, not write something that tries to justify a poem clearly lacking. So don't worry about hurting my feelings. I'd rather have terse or blunt feedback, than diplomatic crap that says nothing.
Dale
How long after picking up the brush, the first masterpiece?
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.