increasingly noticing that when my friends say “i keep getting this negative insane feedback from other people” i used to default to assuming they know that the feedback is insane
but seems more like a part of them doesn’t and i do actually need to say “this feedback is insane”
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one time i got a lot of disheartening weird feedback during a poetry workshop that i didnt know how to integrate into my writing, so i went to my professor's office hours, explained my poem and the feedback, and he was like "they're straight-up wrong, that's bad feedback"
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(basically it boiled down to "everyone in the workshop was trying to do a specific kind of narrative writing, and i wasnt". prof recommended me a book of classical chinese lyric poetry and it changed my life)
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oh neato, what’s different about classical chinese lyric poetry?
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wordswithoutborders.org/article/the-wh
basically non-narrative, more observation/thought/snapshot-oriented
the untranslated chinese has fixed tonal and rhythmic patterns that align with certain song formats from the time, from what i understand
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nice, they feel a lot like chinese watercolors somehow. i like this style of translating place names literally also, it’s fun
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