Comment on Jared Williams by winterkate
No problem!
This actually reminds me a lot of some of the problems I was having a while back-- feeling like quality was something I needed to do and that other people were going make assumptions about me based on whether or not the poems I produced were good in some vague, general sense. I fixed this by intentionally writing stupid poems and forcing myself to produce a poem every day for a long period of time. I mean, quality is still something I shoot for, but it's not such a big deal if I make something that other people think is weak on occasion-- it's all a part of learning and getting better.
So I guess I'm trying to say that maybe you should do some writing exercises and post them on here, whether they're good or bad? I'm trying to see if I can talk people into doing a 100 themes marathon at some point, so maybe something like that would help you loosen up a little.
This actually reminds me a lot of some of the problems I was having a while back-- feeling like quality was something I needed to do and that other people were going make assumptions about me based on whether or not the poems I produced were good in some vague, general sense. I fixed this by intentionally writing stupid poems and forcing myself to produce a poem every day for a long period of time. I mean, quality is still something I shoot for, but it's not such a big deal if I make something that other people think is weak on occasion-- it's all a part of learning and getting better.
So I guess I'm trying to say that maybe you should do some writing exercises and post them on here, whether they're good or bad? I'm trying to see if I can talk people into doing a 100 themes marathon at some point, so maybe something like that would help you loosen up a little.
Thank you so much for this. You know, I do have a hundred-themes challenge saved in my Favorites folder. I should really break that out and have a go at it. Thank you so much for this. You have really good advice. I'm definitely going to try my best to follow it!