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Mike,

The point of critique is to help you achieve what you're reaching for--there really is no foolish. We want you to make the best version of the poem you're trying to create.

Best,

Todd

This is an especially difficult concept to grab for me personally. It's seems to be this constant battle with me and rules. Breaking one results in feeling that good old-fashioned foolishness, yet I see great poetry with broken rules all the time. I've pondered threads on here which discuss this, I've analyzed several poems with broken rules to see how the poet makes it work, all to no avail, as it remains a battle with me. Maybe this piece will help me figure it out, or maybe not hehe

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Ella,

Yes it's quite difficult, especially as a novice writer. You hear a more experienced, more well-versed poet's critique and you wanna do what they say, but what especially gets me lost is when you have two or three more experienced poets with different opinions on how to revise the same line. The whole purpose of workshopping to me was originally to have my works read by poets better than I who would then tell me how to revise. I would then revise and boom! a work of art. I'm now beginning to realize just how naive that was of me, but im glad im realizing it! But yes Ella, its quite difficult.