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User	Primal | 2004-07-29 |
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Message	Funny you mention it aside from jotting down my thoughts in metaphor form or metaphorm, I spend alot of my free time writing comicbook synopsis’s? (synopsi?) and scripts. Due to my over active imagination I have many concepts, character bibles, and scripts written down in several notebooks that probably won’t see the light of day. Only due to the fact that it’s difficult finding an artist that’ll work for free and an unknown writer. Mad respect to the sequential storytelling community though.

User	MyX | 2004-07-28 |
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Message	I tend do disagree with you angela. I don’t believe the definition of poet is as deep as you say. An author writes. A poet writes poetry. Whether or not the poetry is any good or not is beside the point. If the desire to write a poem is there for a writer, whether or not its to impress your friends or a member of the opposite sex, get published and public recognition, or just self remedy....it makes them a poet in every right. But thats just a different point of view. There is no right or wrong in semantics such as these.... MyX

User	angela~ | 2004-07-28 |
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Message	There are poets and there are authors. Some authors write poetry but they are not "poets." Being a poet is having a calling to tell a truth, share an emotion, to be UNDERSTOOD by another human being. Some people write poetry only from the mind instead of the heart. They don’t do it for any reason other than personal recognition, to have someone think them clever. Poets on the other hand, they plant seeds and hope they sprout into understanding. They see things just a little different from other people. They see with their souls instead of their eyes. Poets are not made...they are born.

User	SugarMouse | 2004-07-23 |
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Message	’no matter the skill level, all you have to do is believe.’… Pfft. ’Believing’ doesn’t make a good poet… That’s blind idealism… I agree that anyone who wants to write poetry can do, eg. ’I’m freezing, I’m the bee’s knees’ but that isn’t much good… It’s hard work and a genuine aptitude for words and expression that does it… But I agree that being elitist is silly. People are (hopefully) here to improve. My first poems were very bad (they may still be, in some peoples’ opinions). Anyone is worthy of the title ’artist and poet’ at a genuinely high level, IF they have the right potential and dedication, but it’s not something just anyone can pull off… I think that there would be little point in trying to improve if we didn’t bother to judge what we think is real artistry and what isn’t. It gives you something to aspire to. I know that’s a big part of what drives me to write. Anyway, sorry to ramble so far off the original subject: I do write prose, and have posted one short piece of prose on the site, but lately I’ve been writing poetry almost exclusively… Becky

User	| 2004-07-10 |
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Message	Hey Shintori...I’m writing a story...the first two chapters are posted on the site. If you want to read them go for it.

User	MyX | 2004-06-05 |
Subject	haha
Message	You guys are funny. People don’t even have the patience for full length poems, let alone...stories? Ha...just try it. Go submit one. -MyX

User	roxygirl239 | 2004-04-30 |
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Message	I write stories, though no one here would read them do to their length. Mine are usually about 8 pages long. thats why.

User	Lana | 2004-04-27 |
Subject	poetry view
Message	yes stories are interesting , and they are expressions of the human condition. But they take longer to writte connect and think of. I for example am writting one of myb own but it is hard to work on it because you have to link ideas. While when you writte poetry it is shorter and brief. Yopu can say what you mean in an instant. Besides there is no such thing as bad writters no matter in what category we all writte what we feel that does not mean that it can not be done in the simplest of the words.

User	joeyalphabet | 2004-04-17 |
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Message	i write poetry and stories, but i get into spurts--sometimes poetry, sometimes stories. the audience decides whether you’re good or not. I’ve seen stuff on this site that couldn’t pass a 2nd grade level, but people gush over it like the author’s some great poet. if something stinks, you should have the courage to say. but say it in a way that doesn’t discourage a person from continuing to try. everyone’s entitled to write after all, even if it’s bad...

User	Clayton | 2004-04-13 |
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Message	You can call as many people poets as you want, but their works will bear them out! For every vile distasteful poem there is several readers as likened the poem. Neither make a Poet! Maybe not a career, BUT definately a calling. That call brings forth the desire to be read. Reading brings forth the desire to write. So if you write junk, then you will be followed by junkies. If you write well, then there is nothing left to explain but their success.

User	Webmaster | 2004-04-12 |
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Message	There’s no real standardized definition for poetry. Poetry can even be verbal. Since poetry can also be freeverse anyone who has worked on putting into words life’s complexities is a poet. Being a poet is not a career it’s a calling towards eliciting emotion and spreading a message..wording life’s complexities into broken down truths. Everyone is a poet. Aspiring to have a poetry book some distant year in the future that actually will be sold in bookstores(nice try poetry.com) and get you an income is just not logical. Not sure if the people submitting everything that comes to them in first draft form and obsessively complimenting each other would count them as being ’more of a poet’. Definitions are meaningless as it comes back to just being virtual power and acclaim.

User	Clayton | 2004-04-11 |
Subject	BAD NEWS!
Message	Everyone is not a Poet! Anyone can write on bathroom walls, post on an internet site, or even get published and they still may never become a Poet. A Poet is a gifted person with the desire to write, become recognized and see his/her works last a lifetime-not quite so either. There are lots of writers even here and many will never see their dreams realized. some may not even know or care what amout of exposure their work gets. Others could care less, as long as they vent their minds and someone says Hey! I think this site needs a Story forum where short stories could be posted. Then the writers would be separated from the readers, so to speak.

User	kjb | 2004-04-10 |
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Message	True. True. yes the long ones do make ya go wow its gonna take awhile but i will read it nevertheless. i was actually thinking of writing a story in parts and submitting it but not sure wat to do yet. working on it. interesting post. peace kevin

User	angela~ | 2004-04-05 |
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Message	I would read stories if there were more offered here. I agree, people dont like to take the time. I think they should. You hone your craft by reading. The more a person reads, the more he improves! I must admit though that I lose patience with some of the long writes if they are sloppily done. If something is presented for public viewing, the least the writer can do is spellcheck the thing and use proper paragraphs.

User	magnicat | 2004-03-28 |
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Message	i hate to say it, but i am one of those who have a hard time reading the long ones. unless it catches me in the first couple of lines, i won’t read any further. however, i am trying to get beyond that and read longer posts. i’ve seen some great ones at this site.! i shall hop to your site and check it out!

User	Webmaster | 2004-03-28 |
Subject	well, yes
Message	Not many will read the long ones. The best way to come by it is read a long one yourself and ask for reciprocation. Poetry is good because it’s a psychological doorway. I group of short writes that portray what is important to people and what plagues at their mind and defined them, and their life. Understanding people is understanding writing. The better you understand how thing go on in people heads the better you can portray a character. It’s all towards the same. Connections will define a story’s strength.