04-01-2017, 06:02 AM
I try to keep Todd's sig in mind always. We all have to have our visions for our poems shattered sometimes in order to allow the poem to become what it wants to be. Friends often don't want to be the ones to shatter a poem -- there's a natural instinct to preserve the relationship. I tried to get my friends to crit my work when I first started, but I learned that I couldn't get truly honest critique from those who have something to lose by pissing me off. The veterans here don't give a shit about that, and that's a good thing -- that's why it works.