They were all roughly the same length and answered the same prompt. When talking about everyone else’s poems, there was a lot of talk about what was good and what worked and what could have been done to maybe make it more impactful. I’m not offended that I got critiques. I’m frustrated because I didn’t get any kind of feedback except for a few basic corrections. I don’t know what anyone thought about it because no one said what they thought about it. No one said “Hey, I liked this, here’s what worked” or “I wasn’t a fan, here’s what didn’t work and here’s what you could try instead”. It was just... nothing. No suggestions, no nothing.
A bunch of people have voiced feelings like they really know more about themselves as a writer after six weeks in this class. All I know at this point is that I write how I speak, because that’s all anyone has told me.
A bunch of people have voiced feelings like they really know more about themselves as a writer after six weeks in this class. All I know at this point is that I write how I speak, because that’s all anyone has told me.
I guess if I were you and I had to write a poem for class/get critique, I personally wouldn't care what people said about my poem because I don't like poems and probably would never write one ever again other than for this class. Do you think you're gonna write more poems after this and feel personally offended by what they think about your poem writing skills? Or are you just gonna go back to creative story writing and should probably focus on that?
In all seriousness, I know you're wanting some kind of eye opening experience from this class about your writing slump. But I feel like most creative classes in college (in my humble opinion) make a person want to run away screaming and never look back on their work from that time and are just glad they survived all the weird/hard homework by the end. S: