answer the question honestly, please. don't leave anything out.
i can take criticisms if you see it necessary.
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eh any answer i give would seem hollow
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i feel like i know what you mean.
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a better question is "what do you think of your writing?"
a writer doesn't truly grow in scope or measurable distance without his own self debasing criticism. Regardless of what any "professional" writer or poet says to you or suggests you do or change is irrelevant to you and your writing, because your writing should be a reflection of your thoughts your ideas, your desires and ambition, basically everything that makes you..you is what your writing should consist of. So you'll have people telling you you're the greatest writer they've ever read, or complete shit and a waste of their time, but really it's what you see in your own work that matters, and reflecting and searching inward is the only way one can truly grow.
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I know what I think. Most of the time, at least. I wanted to know what you guys think. Which is maybe something different. Maybe not. :]
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haha i want to ask this now.
i agree with a lot of what's been said. and i've told you the answer to this multiple times. i think lately your writing is different though. i think as you've changed as a person, your writing has too. it seems softer now, not so much in a melancholy way but almost exposing a weakness most overbear with pride. you don't weigh things down with intentional poetic devices and it just comes across as so beautiful and weightless, almost. it holds a pressure to it. a lasting momentum. everything you write has different interpretations that could be applied, and there's always a deeper meaning. it reminds me greatly of bukowski at times. i think you're a true poet.
but if you zoom out, you're so much more than that.
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i want/need to talk to you.
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alright, i'll call you.
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you are one of less than ten poets I have come across and been immediately enamoured of. I think your writing is very simple. They say genius may be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way; well, then you very well may be a poetic genius. I relate to what you write, and I envy how you write it.
But then, you and I are in the honeymoon stage of our relationship. We're having wonderful poem-sex with each other and I've yet to notice the ugly way your face bunches up like a pug when the sun's too bright, or the way you keep putting silverware in the fridge with your leftovers. So my perception is a bit clouded by adoration. In a little while I should become more familiar with your work and therefore able to critique it.
But who knows? You may also be one of the ones on my "too perfect to be critiqued" list (which would bring the grand total to six). -
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Crap. I'm not on that list...
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that was the best thing i have ever read.
you think i'm kidding?
i'm not. -
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well. maybe a little bit of kidding.
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Yes, well all things should have a little bit of kidding in them. (kidding... ha... young goats...)
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the worst part of it is... i did legitimately own several goats on the farm where i grew up.
they SMELL awful.
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...Ha. HaHa...Hahahahahaha. Yes. I knew it. I could smell the goat soul on you!
And yeah... most livestock smell awful. but I'm sure that you didn't smell like a spring-time daisy to them, either.
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I smell great, thank you very much. Purchased new deodorant today!
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my, aren't we special? What sort of deodorant, and what does it taste like?
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hahaha. i purchased spray-on women's deodorant in those giant aerosol containers. it's smells and tastes like candy. i don't know why they made it so sugary sweet.
(none of this is true
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Lies! Part of that is true! It really does taste like candy! (if by candy you by chance mean "the very embodiment of a desert in your mouth")
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but not much.
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JEESH... i didn't even answer your question...
ok. what i like: it is honest and usually has meanings that hide among the words. i personally like that.
what i dont like: well, i can't say there is anything in general. there may be a stanza or word choice that i would change on something, but i can't even think of a specific time that happened, and if it did, i messaged you. most times i think that, it is only opinion and not ways i can see for you to improve. im not an expert poet. i only know what i enjoy reading. and your writing, i do.
ok.. i think i answered it. and i changed my typo that was massaged, to messaged. LOL.. ya. seriously. its getting late. and i will reference the 'i am sick' part again... and what the heck am i still doing up... jeesh.
if you feel i didn't answer you, message me thi week when my head doesn't feel like its going to float away. -
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haha, aw beebs. get better soon! *(telepathically sends you some medicine!)*
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lol... thanks. that stuff tasted pretty damn good. what was it?
you're so awesome, christian. just dont tell me how it's 80 some degrees there. or i might have to block you through winter
appreciate the medicine
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i will always tell you what i think. as you know, i usually send constructive criticism privately. and of course you can take it. we all have our opinions, though, so keep that in mind. the ones who are giving you alot of negative feedback may have some good insight, and may not... it's their opinion, as is mine. to me, if you look at any critique and find one way to use it, then there is a gain to it... even if it means that you look at your work and say... hey, i like it as it is. we are always our biggest critic, but we also are always the most sensitive to our own work. i like when someone shares what they like and areas i can improve... speifically. it's the unsubstantial general comments like it's too broad, or it's too abstract. tell me WHY you think that then... give me a possible suggestion? things that are general disliking, i usually brush off as mere opinion. although, it usually does make me go back and try to guess what they didn't like.
ok.. as i already told you, im sick... so if this makes no sense, i will use my cough that is making me almost see stars as my excuse.
'nuf said (ok... too much said, but who asked you for your opinion? lol)
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hm. that may have been my problem seeing as lately i've been in contests where a lot of the judging that's been going on consists of no actual opinions and merely number scores in categories for which no one was required to back anything up with legitimate criticisms or opinions. if i had more actual explanation on what was disliked i might not have been as confused. i'm not really sensitive about my writing to be honest, because i know what it means to me, and personally don't give a shit if it doesn't mean the same thing to an outside reader. but i do NOT like having people disregard something i put a lot of personal energies into without any reasoning to back it up.
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i would ask them for actual explanation. just because number scores are used does'nt mean that there shouldn't be some reason given, especially when asked, of why a score is what it is.
personally, the scoring like that is more like im writing an english paper and lacks what i feel is a personal touch.
if critique like that cannot be backed up with reasons, then it is an opinion and needs to just be stated as such. you can put alot of effort into something and someone think its crap, but if they want to get all professional with a rubric system, then have the decency to back it up. btw, rubrics involve opinion, too. unless it is super strict.
ok.. i am getting worse at making my point. lol. you get me talking and i can't stop
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your writing is very hard to criticize because it is so personal. i feel like if someone were to tell me that a poem about my father "sucked" or "was a piece of shit to read", i would be deeply offended. your work in the past has been amazing. right now, i feel as though it is fragile because it comes from a deeper place. when you begin to write less delicate pieces, it is then that i will feel able to leave an honest critique on your writing.
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hm. so the personalization of my writing means you can't be honest if you dislike a piece? haha. okay. that makes sense, i suppose.
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well, its not so much about the piece than the feelings behind it when it is personal.
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i feel like all art should be personal in some way. you know?
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yes. but some art goes deeper than being just on the surface of personal. i guess, i feel a lot of pain from your writing now. and to seriously comment on it would not be right. unless i am just making assumptions of how you are feeling when you write. if i am, please correct me.
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no, i think i understand what you mean. and thank you i guess i could take this as a compliment overall?
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yes, i do suppose
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As I said in the comment I just left you on your latest work, No one is fit to judge your writing. We do nothing but read it. If it speaks to us, moves us, or stirs something within us then so be it but no one but your self is fit to judge your writing. We are our own worst critics. Don't let anything some "judge" of a contest says about you or your writing because it is you. Your writing pours out of your finger tips and its like you left a piece of your self on my computer screen. I happen to think that your amazing but its only an opinion not a judgemental sort of thing. If anyone says anything about your work its simply their opinion and you know what they say about those! Don't let them get you down. Your amazing and if they can't see that then someone needs to help them pull their heads out of their...umm..well you get it.
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haha i do get it, unfortunately!
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Any who, You are my favorite writer ever. Including published as well as including this entire site because there is no Bull Shit with you. As I said before its little pieces of you that linger on my computer screen and scream at me to read them, to let them into my mind so that they might inhabit it and make me think hard about every letter that flowed outta your finger tips. There is just not any bull shit with you. Its all real and all writing should be that way. Keep writing and I will keep reading it
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raw, honest, cathartic & often insightful to the human condition. your writing is some of my favourite on the site.
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wow. thank you so much for that.
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before I respond... why are you asking?
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now i guess i can't answer that question publicly.
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I find myself very curious as to the nature of these comments you've been getting. They seem to really have riled you up.
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not riled up. just annoyed and disinterested in certain activities.
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*chuckles* Of course.
*Imagined you herding goats in a disinterested manner*
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