11-25-2013, 10:46 AM
(11-25-2013, 10:43 AM)FATALSHORES Wrote: Well, considering you are not the author, nor someone making a comment on this work, what useful purpose are you serving responding to this post? If the only reason for displaying work here is to improve it, then how would it be helpful for someone acquainted with the author to make the same comment that I have? I think a confidence boost can be useful for a beginning author, and Mikeodial clearly has some talent. Milo, I hope you're not one of those folks that bitterly scours message boards looking for cheap opportunites to take shots. If I read some of your work and it is brilliant, I will apologize.I am a moderator.
I am trying to get you to see yourself how a workshop works and how useless your comment is so that you can be a successful contributor. Since the author doesn't know you, you may have terrible taste in poetry so what does your comment, "I like it" really mean?
Writers aren't here for "confidence boosting" they are here for workshopping.
something you might find useful: http://www.pigpenpoetry.com/showthread.php?tid=3505
And from the excerpt:
Remember: Whether you LIKE the poem is the very last thing you should consider if you wish to remain objective.