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[Rowena]

Sem,

I hear you when you say you have unique tastes. I, too, find some very popular works less than to my liking. The ones I do like tend to not be popular. I'm not sure what that says about me, but it is what it is. 

In my other writing group, we really don't get into whether or not we like a piece. We ask questions to the author to get them thinking about what the have written. For example, what is the main character's problem? What is he trying to resolve? What other problems arise as a result of trying to resolve them? Stuff like that. We point out when too many adjectives are used, or when POV is confusing or conflicting. 

I've learned that part of being a good writer is taking what is valuable to you and leaving the rest to simmer in the background. More times than not, the stuff I leave simmering rears its head when I need it the most and the thorn that had been jabbing in my side for years suddenly becomes an epiphany. 

Rowena
Author of the Spirian Saga
http://RowenaPortch.com

> On Jun 7, 2015, at 12:45 AM, Semirhage via stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Still here. Thought this was more of a meet up networking, whatever for writers rather than a direct critique list. I don't enjoy offering most critique and disagree with most of what I see on poetry in the way of critique. I feel it should flow and be from the heart and move the reader in some way and if it does that, it's fantastic. I have unique taste which is another reason I don't offer  any critique. At our local poetry group here in Grants Pass OR the founder writes poems everyone loves, but to me they just sound like random concepts jumbled together and called a poem. A poem, is a very open broad definition to interpretation and I don't feel I or anyone else really needs to define it in a critical way. Point is everyone at the local group loves his stuff and it's just not doing it for me. LOL. They love the comic stuff my husband and I do too, and that's vastly different, so it's no indication. Anyway, that was a bloody long winded explanation, so sorry for that. LOL. Just when it's so often opinion rather than fact I just don't like to go there. And I've not submitted anything to the list because I submit it to publishers or editors and don't want it floating around out there. LOL. But again love networking, sharing thoughts and opinions and writing suggestions, ETC and that's what  I feel I get from this list.
> Cheers.
> Sem
> I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed.
> I get along with the voices inside of my head. 
> 
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