Passionate or gutless?

[Todd]

Cidermaid, I meant nothing by my post. I wasn't even trying to correct you. I didn't see your lingo as necessarily wrong, I was just building off what Leanne had mentioned and wanted to contribute to the thread. No one here is trying to put anyone in their place. Look if you were to stack rank all of us next to one another you would see a vast gulf in various areas of competency. You are better with form right now than I am. You tap into the rhythm of it better. It's more natural for you. It's likely that no matter how much work I put in I'll be limited in that respect. That said, I'm still going to work at it. So, I would say yeah get over it. There is no hidden passive aggressive slap down in anything I wrote. I don't view anyone on a different hierarchy level. I can learn from anyone and hopefully I have something to give back.

I'm glad you're here. I'm glad you started this thread.

On critique: I struggled with a poem for about 15 years. The content was too close to me emotionally. I kept overwriting it. My skill didn't line up to my expectations. I had a very seasoned poet critique me and basically say: less is more be more subtle. I agreed but it still took me a few years to pull it off. Eventually, all of it both the writing and the critiquing start to click. It's always hard when you start. Try not to worry about what anyone might think just assume that most people have good intentions toward you and your work.

Hopefully, I didn't get into things you don't really have an issue with.

*The thread may now continue