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heh, you like that play on words, admit it.
My Rant:
Before you submit a poem to this board, fucking read it. Poetic license does not allow you to turn a verb into a noun.
If you write a poem that reads like a million and one other poems by angst ridden poets who are only interested in themselves or an audience of one, then go read the critiques we gave them.
If you open someone else's critique and you read about spelling, punctuation, cliche, poem form/stlye/rhythm, and you can apply every constructive criticism to your exact poem, then you're not original and you need work. Don't make me copy and paste my critiques. I will fucking start doing it.
I'm so tired of being nice. I wasn't nice to myself when I first started writing poetry, because I sucked. If you still suck, and you know if you do, fucking practice, take the advice and better your writing by reading reading reading, and getting some goddamn life experience.
The bottom line, everyone has heartbreak, everyone has passion. It's up to you to portray the detail without being obvious about the cliche, and that's where style and rhythm and goddamn voice come in.
Speaking about voice, if you write poems without character, what's the fucking point? And why would you want anyone to read them? Embarassing, no?
[disclaimer because I don't want a million goddamn emails about how my stuff sucks, cause I already know some of it does, but if someone whose stuff sucks is telling you all this stuff, that should be a big fucking clue, right?] this isn't towards any one person, so don't get all your panties in a knot. This isn't pretty advice, and hate me, that's fine, but fucking write well already[/disclaimer]
ps. I know I didn't spell everything correctly, boo to me. Now go and write well.
My Rant:
Before you submit a poem to this board, fucking read it. Poetic license does not allow you to turn a verb into a noun.
If you write a poem that reads like a million and one other poems by angst ridden poets who are only interested in themselves or an audience of one, then go read the critiques we gave them.
If you open someone else's critique and you read about spelling, punctuation, cliche, poem form/stlye/rhythm, and you can apply every constructive criticism to your exact poem, then you're not original and you need work. Don't make me copy and paste my critiques. I will fucking start doing it.
I'm so tired of being nice. I wasn't nice to myself when I first started writing poetry, because I sucked. If you still suck, and you know if you do, fucking practice, take the advice and better your writing by reading reading reading, and getting some goddamn life experience.
The bottom line, everyone has heartbreak, everyone has passion. It's up to you to portray the detail without being obvious about the cliche, and that's where style and rhythm and goddamn voice come in.
Speaking about voice, if you write poems without character, what's the fucking point? And why would you want anyone to read them? Embarassing, no?
[disclaimer because I don't want a million goddamn emails about how my stuff sucks, cause I already know some of it does, but if someone whose stuff sucks is telling you all this stuff, that should be a big fucking clue, right?] this isn't towards any one person, so don't get all your panties in a knot. This isn't pretty advice, and hate me, that's fine, but fucking write well already[/disclaimer]
ps. I know I didn't spell everything correctly, boo to me. Now go and write well.
you. 
