often it does sound defensive and some times ungrateful to some. after a while you'll get to know who likes what :
thank you goes a long way as does the willingness to workshop the poem if it's needed. from experience, if something needs to be explained; it may be because it's more obscure than you think. most people i know think the dog star was lassy or ole yella. we feel the poem belongs to the poet and they chose or not whether to use none, any or all feedback given. we're pretty forgiving if you leave feedback elsewhere though
thank you goes a long way as does the willingness to workshop the poem if it's needed. from experience, if something needs to be explained; it may be because it's more obscure than you think. most people i know think the dog star was lassy or ole yella. we feel the poem belongs to the poet and they chose or not whether to use none, any or all feedback given. we're pretty forgiving if you leave feedback elsewhere though (12-25-2015, 10:04 AM)Jacob Wrote: The pulsing feet thing is unfortunate. Those are both really important sentiments for the poem and they are not supposed to be that directly connected. I'll have to think about this.
Would exchanging "within" for "therein" help?
I had thought the thing with stars was common knowledge, but it's explained here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Averted_vision
a question of etiquette - I'm new to this site so I'm still figuring out how this community works, it is generally considered useful to explain why you are going to discard people's suggestions, or should I just ignore what isn't useful? It seems like I often have solid artistic reasons for disagreeing with people that, if this was a real conversation, I would explain, but here I'm just worried that it'll sound defensive.