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quillpunkI post my poetry on mastodon, sometimes. I dare say it's probably the best response I've ever gotten on my poetry, and also it's probably gone to my head a little. Last week, I even put together a booklet of my poems! I sent it to a local POD publisher and got a copy for myself. It's shipped, but I haven't received it yet (still need to figure out how to pay the bill for that).
I'm not sure I did it right; the program I'm using is set to mandarin because I've got mandarin installed on the computer, but I don't actually know enough mandarin to change that setting. So I kind of had to just... go through all the options until I finally had a file the publisher would accept. *sweat*
So the pages might all be blank or out of order, lol.
It was very cheap though, so I'm not worried about it~
When it comes to poetry, too, I think it's easy in a way that writing prose isn't. Maybe that's because I sing my poetry as I'm writing them, over and over again, so it rhymes and comes quite easily. I like it, but I'm not gonna claim being *good* at it. ...I'm not bad though!
All in all, I'm very happy that folk seem to like my poetry on mastodon, so I'll keep posting new ones. I might even post some here?
I'm not sure I did it right; the program I'm using is set to mandarin because I've got mandarin installed on the computer, but I don't actually know enough mandarin to change that setting. So I kind of had to just... go through all the options until I finally had a file the publisher would accept. *sweat*
So the pages might all be blank or out of order, lol.
It was very cheap though, so I'm not worried about it~
When it comes to poetry, too, I think it's easy in a way that writing prose isn't. Maybe that's because I sing my poetry as I'm writing them, over and over again, so it rhymes and comes quite easily. I like it, but I'm not gonna claim being *good* at it. ...I'm not bad though!
All in all, I'm very happy that folk seem to like my poetry on mastodon, so I'll keep posting new ones. I might even post some here?
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Date: 2022-11-29 08:12 pm (UTC)Yeah, I get that.
>>Maybe that's because I sing my poetry as I'm writing them, over and over again, so it rhymes and comes quite easily. <<
I do that with rhymed, metered verse. Much of what I write nowadays is free verse, but I still love form poetry.
>>All in all, I'm very happy that folk seem to like my poetry on mastodon, so I'll keep posting new ones. I might even post some here?<<
Go for it.
Funny thing about audiences, they can be totally different on different services for no discernible reason. Over on AO3, my audience loves fiction and is largely indifferent to poetry. But Dreamwidth it's the opposite, they love poetry and only occasionally show interest in fiction.