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 Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 1:04 am
Did you ever have a friend that wrote really annoying poetry, or bad stories? That's okay, not everyone is perfect. In fact no-one is.
But, did this friend constantly require approval from you, about their pieces of not-so-brilliant writing?
Being their friend, you're pretty much obligated to say something nice. But what if it's so bad, you don't want to say anything good?
I'd like to hear if anyone else has had this trouble. Here's an experience of mine, below.
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Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 1:08 am
I need to stop compulsively writing bad poetry. A friend of mine used to do it and it irritated me to no end, because it was always depressing and boring and she not only made me read it, she expected me to like it even after I told her numerous times that I don't like her style.
Or her words.
Her rythm.
Her structure.
The repetative nature of what she writes.
It was always war, death, rape, murder. She couldn't even be original about it.
And one day, she comes to school and tells me, "Sam, I've got 84 poems in my poem journal, now!"
And I thought, yeah, how many are copies?
I swear, 30% were about her family and being 'abandoned' by them (didn't actually happen), 40% were about some form of death, often coupled with rape and/or torture, 20% were about war, war widows and other things she claimed to understand but had never experienced and the last 10% were about nature stereotypes.
Your common garden variety poet. Her stuff belongs on a fridge magnet.
I understand that's harsh, but I get so frustrated that she writes only for herself, and still expects others to understand exactly what she meant!
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Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 9:50 am
I tend to write poems, record my dreams (make of that what you will), and so far my attempts to write any kind of story have always been foiled, usually by some problem that I've been having. But I always, always try to make something that I can be proud of, even my sad attempts at writing. So when my sister came up to me with this collection of her 'poems' I read them over. Four to six line, always rhyming, little skits about every day things. My first thought was.. how much effort did she put into these?? I told her that I'm not a fan of those kinds of poems and I thought she could do with a little bit more practice. That year for Christmas she gave me a book filled with those tiny 'poems'. She had this big grin on her face and kept asking me if I had read them. I didn't have the heart to tell her that I threw the book away into the garbage when she wasn't looking.
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Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 7:32 pm
Ask your friend to post them on online forms and see what kind of response she gets. That way she gets the critiques and comments that she blindly needs while getting you off the hook
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Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 11:07 am
thankfuly none of my friends try to inflict their poetry/stories upon me (though i wish she'd stop inflicting her music taste on me!! razz )
i don't inflict my writing on people unless i have a vagually decent reason; it meets my standards; the latter and its their birthday and i have a fairly strong feeling that they'll like it. e.g. i wouldn't give my friend one of my poems because they are a bit on the dark side but i would give it to my dad because that's his sort of thing.
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