I'm afraid I'm one of those that has a bit of difficulty dealing with both the forum and the gallery. I'm sort of a dinosaur, in that I was quite comfortable with the forum back in the days before there even was a writer's gallery. Yes, Virginia, there really was a time... What I liked about posting to the forum was the give and take that seemed to take place back then. Perhaps my memories are fonder than reality warrants? I don't know. But now I do try to post in both places, though admittedly I'm not too good at keeping up with the gallery. I seem to hit it in spurts. I tend not to comment in the gallery, and that I'm afraid is mostly just my own laziness. Also, I find it difficult to comment on poetry or things that seem to be of a deeply painful personal nature. It's not that they don't deserve comment. In the case of poetry I simply feel grossly unqualified most of the time. The the latter case, I simply don't know what to say like someone unable to console the bereaved at a funeral (I have difficulty with that too). And since I'm not sure if such a posting is fictional or not, I have a dread of making some sort of horribly insensitive comment like, You should have used active voice there, when someone is pouring out their soul. Just seems safer here in the forum. At any rate, I'm getting a little better. Time was when I posted nothing at all in the gallery. So over time, maybe folks will just sort of drift together. We can always hope. jon

 
~jon
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