What Beat the Poetry Forum into the Ground

[JamesCiriaco]

Yeah, I've always thought that Angeline and WickEve were kind of the stuffy, stodgy sort... ya know, kinda hard to get engaged in an intellegent conversation (that is unless of course the subject is stuffy & stodgy dildos, zombies, road kill or possum porn... )

As I've said, I'm new here, so I'm not going to get the in-jokes. I don't know Angeline or WickedEve well enough to speak to their stodginess one way or the other.

 

[PandoraGlitters]

Most of the people here who post a lot have been posting here for years and have intricate relationships with other people on the board. This is why I tend to keep my mouth shut here except to write or respond to poems sometimes. I have met some wonderful and some awful people here and have made one friend. Maybe that's about the norm for online poetry forums?

ETA: In PM I was just reminded my friend count is inaccurate. Make that two. Yay!

 

[EroticOrogeny]

As a new participant here at Literotica, this is what I see on the first page of these forums: tremendously long, ancient threads, peopled for the most part by the same old hands, all of whom seem to have a history together.

While there's nothing wrong with being an old hand, or with long-established relationships, I would suggest that the thread structure here makes it difficult for a new writer to break in. I've looked several times for a place to do so, and haven't really found it. The threads as they stand give the impression of a closed community, of wagons having been circled.

Perhaps this isn't the case. The recommendations thread seems to have been welcoming to new poets. I'm just describing, from an outsider's perspective, how the framework of the forum strikes one upon first visiting. It might help to explain whatever dearth of new blood you've noticed.

I'm fairly new, but have found some threads which I can participate in.
AnnaSwirls has started several threads, such as Around the Table, 20 questions. SOme are more serious/oriented more towards writing, others more just for fun.

 

[WickedEve]

Thank you for the invitation to post. I'll keep an eye open for more recent threads, and if something occurs to me-- something interesting, as per WickedEve's request-- I'll certainly start one of my own.

Interesting, not stodgy, preferably a speckled chartreuse thread.

 

[Angeline]

Most of the people here who post a lot have been posting here for years and have intricate relationships with other people on the board. This is why I tend to keep my mouth shut here except to write or respond to poems sometimes. I have met some wonderful and some awful people here and have made one friend. Maybe that's about the norm for online poetry forums?

ETA: In PM I was just reminded my friend count is inaccurate. Make that two. Yay!

I'm a Gemini. It's three!

 

[Safe_Bet]

Most of the people here who post a lot have been posting here for years and have intricate relationships with other people on the board. This is why I tend to keep my mouth shut here except to write or respond to poems sometimes. I have met some wonderful and some awful people here and have made one friend. Maybe that's about the norm for online poetry forums?

ETA: In PM I was just reminded my friend count is inaccurate. Make that two. Yay!

I'm a Gemini. It's three!

I have multiple personality disorder. It's seventeen!

Interesting, not stodgy, preferably a speckled chartreuse thread.

Speckled, chartreuse, road kill zombies at least?????

 

[Tzara]

As a new participant here at Literotica, this is what I see on the first page of these forums: tremendously long, ancient threads, peopled for the most part by the same old hands, all of whom seem to have a history together.

While there's nothing wrong with being an old hand, or with long-established relationships, I would suggest that the thread structure here makes it difficult for a new writer to break in. I've looked several times for a place to do so, and haven't really found it. The threads as they stand give the impression of a closed community, of wagons having been circled.

Perhaps this isn't the case. The recommendations thread seems to have been welcoming to new poets. I'm just describing, from an outsider's perspective, how the framework of the forum strikes one upon first visiting. It might help to explain whatever dearth of new blood you've noticed.

I find your comment a little puzzling. As Angeline said, most of the "tremendously long, ancient threads" on the main PF&D page are writing threads (e.g., all of a sudden passion suddenly or 30 Poems in 30 Days), so "break[ing] in" should be easy--just write something appropriate for the thread. They are, often, sprinkled with chat among people who have posted here for some time, so there are, of course, in jokes and comments that wouldn't make much sense to someone new. Commenting on one of these exchanges would be difficult, but I would think that was pretty much true of any online forum. It takes time to orient oneself to who's who and what the folkways of the forum are.

Eve's suggestion of starting a new thread is a good idea. Start a thread on a topic you'd like to discuss and you'll probably get quite a dialogue.

Probably. A topic like "Water images in Tennyson's Idylls of the King" might not draw a lot of interest.

 

[annaswirls]

I am an old hand and I still don't know what is going on here.

But this is a hint: what seems like insider humor is just crap we make up on the fly.

I know how you feel, though. When I first came here, it was hard to figure things out, now the forum is split, and I know it is not popular for me to say, but I really think that spreading it thin makes it, well, wide and thin and hard to follow since there are so few of us around.

You might also trying to hook up with other new writers too, find a buddy to navigate with?

Most of all, just jump in. We won't bite, unless you ask nicely.

 

[PandoraGlitters]

Most of all, just jump in. We won't bite, unless you ask nicely.

If you are a bloke. I've tried and nary a nibble. So see, James, you're doing well, already.

ETA: It isn't a complaint, just a statistic--there are about thirty women to each man, here, so men are much more likely to get a big welcome. UNLESS it is really even and each woman has 7 alts. Also a possibility.

 

[annaswirls]

If you are a bloke. I've tried and nary a nibble. So see, James, you're doing well, already.

oh my goodness I would love to nibble on your sparkley wonderfulness!


And James, you can also try to make a connection with an old hand who can teach you all the secret handshakes.

 

[JamesCiriaco]

Probably. A topic like "Water images in Tennyson's Idylls of the King" might not draw a lot of interest.

Well damn. Back to the drawing board...

 

[WickedEve]

Well damn. Back to the drawing board...

I clicked on the link to your home page and read some of your work. I think any threads you start -- or future posts -- will be a wonderful addition to this forum.

 

[loganforester]

If you are a bloke. I've tried and nary a nibble. So see, James, you're doing well, already.

ETA: It isn't a complaint, just a statistic--there are about thirty women to each man, here, so men are much more likely to get a big welcome. UNLESS it is really even and each woman has 7 alts. Also a possibility.

Some of us guys that hang around here tend to enjoy the male-female ratio. I've certainly noticed and I'm not complaining about it either.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

If you are a bloke. I've tried and nary a nibble. So see, James, you're doing well, already.

ETA: It isn't a complaint, just a statistic--there are about thirty women to each man, here, so men are much more likely to get a big welcome. UNLESS it is really even and each woman has 7 alts. Also a possibility.

What number are we up to I lost count? Hope I count at 17 ish

Oh and I bite whether you ask for it or not

 

[Tzara]

And James, you can also try to make a connection with an old hand who can teach you all the secret handshakes.

Handshake?!

Oh, my.

That might explain some of the reactions I've gotten.




I mean, I thought that... um... well, never mind.

 

[Tzara]

If you are a bloke. I've tried and nary a nibble.

I prefer to lick my sweets. Personal preference, I suppose.

 

[annaswirls]

Handshake?!

Oh, my.

That might explain some of the reactions I've gotten.




I mean, I thought that... um... well, never mind.

well I didn't say what the hand was shakin'

 

[Tzara]

Well damn. Back to the drawing board...

You could always try it, of course

Queen Guinevere, then dampened in embrace,
Became herself a Lady in a Lake,
Awash in passion's current, spiraling
Toward her own destruction, and the King's​

though you'd likely have better luck trying to write a BDSM poem, just cuz that's a topic people get all het up about.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Well damn. Back to the drawing board...

*Behaves* hello and welcome jump right on it the jacuzzi is warm n bubbling. They are a good lot here though some are a trifle tied up with all sorts of strange subjects but they won't mind if you comment

 

[WickedEve]

though you'd likely have better luck trying to write a BDSM poem, just cuz that's a topic people get all het up about.

I get het up over Appalachian clogging. If the subject comes up in a poem, then it's time for a conniption fit.

 

[JamesCiriaco]

You could always try it, of course

Queen Guinevere, then dampened in embrace,
Became herself a Lady in a Lake,
Awash in passion's current, spiraling
Toward her own destruction, and the King's​

though you'd likely have better luck trying to write a BDSM poem, just cuz that's a topic people get all het up about.

Man, I don't want your spotlight. Honest. Put the Tennyson down and walk away.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

You could always try it, of course

Queen Guinevere, then dampened in embrace,
Became herself a Lady in a Lake,
Awash in passion's current, spiraling
Toward her own destruction, and the King's​

though you'd likely have better luck trying to write a BDSM poem, just cuz that's a topic people get all het up about.

What are you doing under an Irish mountain?

 

[Tzara]

What are you doing under an Irish mountain?

Sleeping.

 

[Tzara]

Man, I don't want your spotlight. Honest. Put the Tennyson down and walk away.

What Tennyson?

 

[Tzara]

I get het up over Appalachian clogging. If the subject comes up in a poem, then it's time for a conniption fit.

Perhaps we should have a challenge to write a BDSM poem about Appalachian clogging?

His wooden shoes step out the beat.
She is the floor. There, leather meets
A softened sole in dancing buck
And, afterwards, with little luck
Her bended knees will drag and slide;
His taps direct how he will ride.​

Hmmm. Perhaps not.