Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: A Public Apology

Photopium opened this issue on Feb 18, 2003 ยท 24 posts


aprilrosanina posted Tue, 18 February 2003 at 11:57 AM

I've had the same reactions when looking at my old poetry. It tends to fall into three categories: 1. What was I THINKING??? I don't drink, so I couldn't have been drunk... let's slip that back in the folder and pretend this never happened. 2. Hm. That one has possibilities. With some rewriting and polishing, it might look a lot better. 3. Hey, I'd forgotten about this one, it's pretty cool! Why don't I start tinkering with meter on this one again... man, I haven't written anything like this for a long time. Admittedly, most of 'em fall in category number 1. That's life for ya. As we progress, our earlier efforts look, well, early. But I don't think we should be ashamed of our early efforts! Yes, we shouldn't delude ourselves into thinking them Great Art, but neither should we slam ourseves by comparison with more practiced artists - including ourselves, years later. :) By exhibiting and getting feedback we improve tremendously, after all. My dad always said, when plunging me into advanced chess tournaments, "You don't learn anything from the games you win. You learn a lot from losing to someone better." Hard on the ego, but still a good philosophy. April Follies