[stylist] Test

Sun Jun 7 15:54:18 UTC 2015

Sem,

In addition to networking with other blind writers, Stylist also, at least
it use to be, a forum where writers could post material for feedback, share
publishing and writing news and strengthen writing skills through writing
exercises. In recent years, we have grown lax about these endeavors, other
than networking, but I miss when we did more writing-related things.

To an extent, I agree with you about poetry. But at university, the program
I was in was a workshop environment, meaning we wrote, shared it with peers
in class and we all had to provide constructive criticism. I was in the
fiction and creative nonfiction tracks, but we all had to take fundamental
classes about each genre including a beginning workshop in each genre. Some
classmates were brutal about their critiques, as were many instructors,
others were more positive, but personally, I learned so much in the workshop
structure. Grant it, we also learned how to critique writing as well. It
goes way beyond saying you merely liked it or did not like it. You learn to
address form and structure, voice and style, and all that good stuff.
Poetry, having very definite forms and structures, actually requires a lot
of mechanical critique along with more abstract critique about subject
matter. So I think with a proper balance, it's a good thing for poets to
receive feedback about their work.

Any creative endeavor should flow from the heart and mind, but there's
always a mechanical side to it whether it be art, writing, music, acting,
etc. It's finding the balance between the creativity and mechanics.

Bridgit

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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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