Writers block

[rowens]

When I first tried putting poems online last year, I used some other sites for a few hours. People kept saying the same things to people. Things like how family and friends might have told you that your writing's good but it's not true, and other run of the mill tips and factoids that I saw repeated over and over. But I knew that my family and friends hated my writing, and I knew that, while the way I wrote might not appeal to any of the people on those sites, none of their writing appealed to me; and the rules and advice they were all following didn't appeal to me either. I knew then, like I knew back in the late '90s when I used to try sending poems to random magazines just to see what would happen, that I'd rather write poems that nobody liked than write poems that people that don't appeal to me like.

There are actually people on this site that I like, and poems that I like. Though I still find it hard to listen to their advice. And I can't have Writer's Block, I have to have something to work on, or things get dark really fast. I write for similar reasons as I drink and, unsuccessfully try to hold on to women: to keep from losing my mind completely. Well, there are other reasons; but many have told me that they come from the fact that I've already lost my mind. But then, they would say that.