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Bump looking for writeranons w/ insight

>>20624858
10/10 in bongland

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You don't get to decide if you have talent. Other people do. Your poetry could be absolute shit, until you prove it's not.
To answer your question, it's up to you and what you want to write. I haven't written much poetry, so if I am talented in it I wouldn't know, but since everything I want to write comes from prose, I only focus on improving my prose. Unless you want to write both poetry and prose then you should just stick to one and improve it.

>>20624927
She's 10 on earth bud

>>20624933
Just looking for an answer to the question in general, not critiques

>>20624946
>You don't get to decide if you have talent. Other people do

Other people have confirmed I have more talent than fiction, having read both

>>20624950
You should focus on improving your fiction prose then, since that seems like it's what you want to write.

>>20624858
Focus on the one that is more likely to allow you to earn a living (not poetry). That said, being good at poetry also helps you with prose. It wasn't uncommon in the past for writers to be good at both poetry and prose, since the act of working on one, as well as actively reading any form of literature, generally helped with the other.

>>20624957

Im happy committing to poetry but I feel like if I dont keep writing fiction I will be missing out on possibly a more marketable and rewarding opportunity

>>20624858
There are almost no examples of great poets who were great novelists or vice versa. Some poets wrote decent novels (Phillip Larkin's early novels are pretty good) and a few novelists also wrote decent poems (Hardy is the greatest on balance, which isn't saying much for either novels or poetry) but in general for whatever reason they don't overlap that much, which suggests they require different aptitudes (Melville's Clarel and Moby Dick are on par but they're so idiosyncratic it'd be impossible to model oneself after that.) Go with what you're more talented at.

>>20625006
Bolaño wrote almost nothing but poetry and journalism until he was middle-aged. He has probably the only really remarkable novels of this century.

How do you know you have talent at all if you’ve not published?

>>20624858
Lovecraft is widely celebrated for his fiction, but he wrote pretty good poetry as well, in my opinion at least. He did give up on poetry though, so take that for what it is. Poe as well wrote both good poetry and short stories.

>>20625098

Same way you think anything you say online and not to my face means anything.

>>20624858
You don’t write.