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User	Blue Monk | 2006-07-10 |
Subject	untitled
Message	Try reading also the biographies of those you admire as well as their works. You might get some insight as to how they came by such talent.

User	laursal | 2006-06-27 |
Subject	being discouraged
Message	I just had a similar experience when venturing into Barnes and Noble yesterday. It was not about my poetry because honestly I only write that for me, but am working on 2 books right now-(#1 is too massive so #2 is my break from it) and walking in there I was suddenly struck by the enormous quantity of books coming out everyday. Now it would be a great feat to finish the books and an even larger one to get just one of them published but looking in that store I realized that even if published there are an incredible number of books that fall by the wayside because there are so many out there. It was just one more thing to be intimidated about. Yikes! What a downer, but I want to write so I’m just going to pretend that none of that matters and keep going. (luckily my inner writer is extremely gullible and will fall for this for a while before falling into a despondant state LOL) If you love to write then write, my favorite poems are those that take the ordinary and show us the extraordinary loocked within it.

User	MowsysWrath | 2006-06-14 |
Subject	help!!!!!!!
Message	Jeniffer, You shouldnt put down your own work, i heard its unhealthy to have low self esteem. If i could write like Shakespear... thats a question right there. I’m thinking shakespear hated his own work, else he was a bragging butthole and people only liked him for his writings... that or he was liked by everyone while not bragging too much BUT I’M SWAYING OFF TOPIC! My Advice is the same as Bonnie’s. Write and pretend noones going to read it.

User	Sasha Lynn | 2006-06-13 |
Subject	untitled
Message	Ahhh- I know exactly what you mean!!! I just got into seriously reading ’professional’ stuff but I’m so blown away by some that i just look at my latest stuff and kinda patheticaly wimper in hoplessness. Its depressing but i just tell myself that even if i won’t ever become one of the greats, at least some of my poems can brighten someones day in some small way. Sure, my poems won’t survive the test of time and people won’t analyze my masterpiece in English 10, but if i read a comment that says "hey, this made me smile and i liked it." i really take that as payment. that sounds sooooooo lame and dorky but its true. Most of us here WON"T become famous (although i’m pretty sure theres a secret part in all of us that makes us feel that someday we will by some stroke of luck be "discovered" ) but we are growing and becoming better thorought this experience so SOMETHING is comming of our toil. that was rather long winded but i know exactly what your feeling. It sucks but hey, what can you do? screw shakespear and Poe, my latest creation will life on forever in the hearts of the 12 people who have bothered to look at it! :) SASHA LYNN

User	wildflower | 2006-06-11 |
Subject	help!!!!!!!!
Message	Jeniffer, Many writers experience the same thing, your not alone!! Unfotunately we cant all be as gifted as Shakespear or Dickenson, but each of us has a unique voice just waiting to come out. You seem to have a real love of both wrighting and reading wich is important. One thing I always find helpful, is to wright as if noone will ever read it, this frees you up to let it all out and not worry if it stinks. Just keep wrighting and you will find your way. Good luck!!!! Bonnie