Just Saying…😎 (24) Constructive Critique in Writing

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Why do people feel the need to be so rude? Why do they think only their opinions are right? No one is right all the time, and opinions are always subjective.

I am a poet and have always welcomed constructive critique, but if you are going to give critique;  please learn how to it properly. Ask your local writers' group if they do a workshop on it. 

I have had two people demanding that my poetry be removed from a site I have contributed to for 5 years because they thought it had been produced by AI. Whilst the picture supporting the senryu had been created by AI, the poem was written by me. Which I had labelled clearly. This was the 44th poem I had produced on the site like this. In all that time no one else had complained and the admins had allowed them. So as I pointed out to these two women, they could have just asked me before their little witch hunt.

Thinking this was the end of it, another comment appeared saying my "Haiku was a sentence!" In her opinion. As I pointed out in my reply, it was a senryu and had the required three parts. I told her I had to disagree with her one sentence comment.

I love the flow and rhythm of poetry and do like to stretch the boundaries of creativity. That is my perogative. 

So please, critique my work constructively and if you don't know how to do it, then please learn. Or you could always follow my late mother's maxim; "If you have nowt* good to say about someone or something then say nowt!"🤣🤣🤣

But sometimes, I can't resist the irony of those that dish it out but can't take it back. 😎
*nowt = nothing (Lancashire Dialect)

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