03-08-2014, 11:15 PM
Thanks everyone - Billy, I remember saying and thinking that about offering crit. I can only add what has already been said by everyone else. Having a go and getting stuck into the practice of reading and offering crit is the best way to improve your own writing efforts.
The culture of this site - the open encouragment, tempered with brutal honesty of others is what keeps me comming back for more. I'm not a poet, but being here makes it fun pretending to be one...So thank you to everyone who has encouraged me, been truthful or even given me a slap when I threw my rattle out of my pram. Offering crit used to make me nervous, but now it is a creative place that I can exist when the muse has fled. The bonus is that the more crit I offer the more likely I am to find some inspiration to set pen to paper myself.
The culture of this site - the open encouragment, tempered with brutal honesty of others is what keeps me comming back for more. I'm not a poet, but being here makes it fun pretending to be one...So thank you to everyone who has encouraged me, been truthful or even given me a slap when I threw my rattle out of my pram. Offering crit used to make me nervous, but now it is a creative place that I can exist when the muse has fled. The bonus is that the more crit I offer the more likely I am to find some inspiration to set pen to paper myself.