Heyya! :)

I hope you all had a relaxing holiday or are at least recovering from it smoothly. Suppose I got to put my English Bachelor's to use somewhere.

One of the things I manifest for the new year is working my creative skills more and having output to match. While I still deal with significant writers' block in one form or another, lately a huge one has been eliminated, and to be honest lately I've been feeling hangry to create. I am most in my element with words, but also love to draw and sing, allegedly I even play in a metal band... although our first demo has been in development Hell due to all our respective lives and this present economic system. So in the meantime lately I've been leaning more into verse, although I am overdue working my prose muscles. I've written in the narrative essay, memoir, historical fiction, and sci-fi genres. But also been dreaming up various pitches in the latter two over the years and have nothing to show for it.

For starters, as far as poetry goes I want to just workshop some of my original verse, some of which I can definitely hear in my head as lyrics, others I can already see myself reading before a bar audience. But you know writers, we're never satisfied, I need to go back and nitpick before calling it a final draft. I'm confident enough to share what I've got with folks but need your (hopefully constructive! :3) criticisms to make hard-hitting poem. Being a little rusty, I must forewarn you they may read as angsty or sappy. I make no claims of being publishable or marketable to any mainstream audience; I just wanna create things that hopefully someone relates to or is otherwise impacted by.

Do something kind for yourself, and don't beat yourself up if your output sucks because that's your muse in there with you.

 

Hello and welcome, we've got a poetry workshop here. It operates on a two-for-one policy - you need to do two crits for every one poem you post for feedback. Same rule applies for all workshops here.

Looking forward to seeing you in the forums!

 

Thanks for the prompt reply! Do the critiques need to necessarily be for poems or can they be for any medium? I already got one ready to go; I guess I'm just wondering if I were to post a fan fic for example would I have to post two critiques in that category.

 

No, the crits can be for any Workshop. Copied from the rules:

• Posting in the Writing Workshop requires you to have given 2 or more constructive critiques of other members' work for each new posted work.