[David Rosenthal]

Originally Posted by E. Shaun Russell

Well, I'm kind of with Michael (et al.) on this. My biggest problem has been determining what level my poems should be at before I workshop them here, and I seem to guess wrong more often than not... I figure that work one is completely happy with shouldn't be posted, even though there is always value in getting other perspectives. By that same token, work that one thinks is not very good shouldn't be posted either, for obvious reasons. But work that has a spark in it, but needs a lot of coaxing...well, maybe there's merit to the idea of a forum for that kind of work. I know that I, for one, have a shoebox full of those!

For me, I think there can be a fine line between "work that one thinks is not very good" and "work that has a spark in it, but needs a lot of coaxing."

David R.