What is Critque and what is not?

[Bunx]

Seriously the more I read my stuff out loud,
I love my old work... On SSRIs I forgot the whole point of me being on it.

I wanted to tell children a story of what SSRI's do to your brain..
For editing context on my entire works on here

bunx = no prescriptions
Bunx = prescriptions

I was inspired my two local poet friends (who never seen of these poems until last week) to just tell my story and figure it out

[Wjames]

Critique to me is just your honest thoughts on something, trying to be helpful to the writer. Everything other than that is not critique.

'I like this because of x, I don't like this because of y. This works, but this doesn't - it might be better if z'.

Usually right after I write something, I love it, and then after some distance, I no longer love most of them. Some few I still like after reading them a few months after they're written.

I may disagree with some critique while the poem is fresh, and then if I come back to it later, I might agree with some critiques I disagreed with before.

I often find it difficult to workshop my poems because of this, it would be much easier for me to revise poems after a few months gap, but by then I'm usually on to something new and the old ones are in the rear view mirror. I find the critique useful even if I don't always action them, I think I absorb what people say in the critiques in to my future writing, even if I disagree in the moment.

I think many times I have not revised a poem, but a few years later written a poem with the same central idea/feeling/theme, that is essentially an edited version of a previous poem.

[brynmawr1]

Hi Bunx,

Is one of the questions you are asking whether critique is useful or helpful?  If so, I struggle with that question, too.  For me, I think the answer is yes.  Good or bad, it gives the writer an outside perspective that can help hone their skills, get out of their own head.  Although, I wonder what the world would be like if the greats of any art had listened too much to their critics.  For me, I appreciate any honest opinion of my work and I have a responsibility, as well, of honest reflection of any feedback I get.

Interested to know what you think.
Bryn

[Bunx]

Part of me is owning up to trying a much larger idea A theory I had when iI last got off SSRIs
so just bare with me, flex your imagination your growing with the drawn of the internet
then seeing it get less beautiful

my writings are just going to reflect my brain more

poetry has always just been anonymous free therapy

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ok i think it is very important i preserve my work off of this website
is there a way? outside of data storage
this is my work
im working class and nuerodivergent
i deserve to get paid

[Bunx]

I honestly dont trust AI to not copy my work, like I want it offline let me know how

[RiverNotch]

not being facetious or anything, but is this a poem or a discussion thing? because i would respond differently to either thing, but it seems to me everyone (including Bunx xD) has responded to it as if it's just a discussion

[Bunx]

this is me literally processing my work

[Bunx]

all very helpful feedback