Ocean

[billy]

the problem lays for the poet in the fact he/she may get confusing signals from the readers.

addy says this and i think the opposite, someone else thinks something completely different and at the end of it all if we follow all their advice we end up with a miss-mash of a shitty poem lol. after all, we can't all be right can we.

i know i've done edits based on crit and the end result was far worse than the original. none of us critics are right and all of us are. it's a bit perplexing to say the least.

i found the best way to deal with cnot only conflicting crit, but crit in general is this;
i mull over it a while. see what an edit using the crit looks like to me on paper and then decide if i think it's right or not. please don't get caught up as i did, in the "it's got to be right or else they wouldn't have said it syndrome"

just use it as a guideline bianca.
or don't use it as a guideline

it's what i tend to do. sometimes i stick the poem i a draw and bring it out 6 months later and do a virtual re-write using no feedback but my own.

thanks for taking the feedback in the manner it was given