(January 8, 2020 at 12:47 am)Brian37 Wrote:(January 8, 2020 at 12:20 am)LadyForCamus Wrote: Atlas, if you are serious about poetry and serious about improving, you need to find a high-quality workshop forum and be prepared for hard work and intense critique. I use everypoet.org. They are brutal, but you’ll get serious, valuable feedback from folks who have actually been published. It’s an amazing resource if you actually care about improving, but it will probably traumatize you if you’re just looking for people to tell you that you’re good. It’s up to you in the end, but honestly, there isn’t much we can do for you here on an atheist forum, ya know?
Sorry, but art is just that. if someone wants to mimic a pattern so what?
The worst thing anyone can do in art is copy or mimic. Nobody stands out by copying others.
Jackson Pollock and Picasso are not art works I would hang on my wall.
@Atlass, just be yourself. If you want to read others and pattern after them, that is fine.
My advice is to read everything, but in the end be you.
Are you implying there is no skill or forethought required to create poetry that affects people? That concepts like word choice, syntax, tone, line breaks, sonics, and form are not important in crafting art in written form? If so, then you’re grossly underestimating the very thing you claim to love. Give the art of poetry a little more damn credit than that, will ya?
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”
Wiser words were never spoken.
Wiser words were never spoken.
