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I took a bit of a risk and admitted in a thread of critique on my poetry that that I was having a hard time.
I try to never brush off a critique, unless it's one that really bothers me, and then only temporarily, until I get perspective.
I try to see the big picture from critiques I get, and relate it back to other pieces.
But a lot of the things said were...man. Ragging on the same things that are not to the modern standard, but I don't really see myself changing. I've played around with stream-of-consciousness. There are some poems in my future, no doubt, that will have no grammatical framing. (In fact...I wrote one that way and posted it a little bit after this conversation, as a sort of vengeance. The kind no one but me will notice, chooou my-style.)
Surprisingly, all the responses were encouraging. Admitting that when a writer gets better, it's harder to critique them, crits get more cutting, and harder to do relevant to the work itself.
So. I have permission to ignore critiques that I don't agree with?
Great. Yes. I think so, too.
But for a while I was really going through a crisis. Was I wrong? I've felt so strongly lately that I've come into my own on verse, and the very tenets of what makes my stuff different was being criticized. Did that make it not poetry?
You'd think one would be more used to these swings downward. But it's all new again, every time! Poetry, for example, I'm still just starting, really.
This is the sort of thing I can't really articulate until I've resolved it--tried posting about it here several times and couldn't make the words come. I am now considering again putting out feelers for critique partners in the SF/F poetry field. I don't know why anyone should bother with looking at all the poetry I produce, or getting criticism on their own from me, but I am again questioning how well it's working to just post on this forum.
I try to never brush off a critique, unless it's one that really bothers me, and then only temporarily, until I get perspective.
I try to see the big picture from critiques I get, and relate it back to other pieces.
But a lot of the things said were...man. Ragging on the same things that are not to the modern standard, but I don't really see myself changing. I've played around with stream-of-consciousness. There are some poems in my future, no doubt, that will have no grammatical framing. (In fact...I wrote one that way and posted it a little bit after this conversation, as a sort of vengeance. The kind no one but me will notice, chooou my-style.)
Surprisingly, all the responses were encouraging. Admitting that when a writer gets better, it's harder to critique them, crits get more cutting, and harder to do relevant to the work itself.
So. I have permission to ignore critiques that I don't agree with?
Great. Yes. I think so, too.
But for a while I was really going through a crisis. Was I wrong? I've felt so strongly lately that I've come into my own on verse, and the very tenets of what makes my stuff different was being criticized. Did that make it not poetry?
You'd think one would be more used to these swings downward. But it's all new again, every time! Poetry, for example, I'm still just starting, really.
This is the sort of thing I can't really articulate until I've resolved it--tried posting about it here several times and couldn't make the words come. I am now considering again putting out feelers for critique partners in the SF/F poetry field. I don't know why anyone should bother with looking at all the poetry I produce, or getting criticism on their own from me, but I am again questioning how well it's working to just post on this forum.