Elise,
There is no such thing to me as a useless critique. Unlike some, I usually try to act on many of the suggestions and see what transpires. I may in the end go back to where I started. But the writer's journey is his/hers alone. The critique is however invaluable. Something I thought was great may well be mediocre at best, for reasons I couldn't see. Often I've been able to make my own changes after the thread is long gone, because it takes time to digest all this. I tried even in my last thread to explain to you that although I ultimately didn't take your suggestion, I tried it, which led to a valuable change no one had brought up.
There's a rule about having to crit others' work before posting one's own that has frequently been invoked, and sometimes more accomplished members are admonished for not responding to crits by even posting a comment, something frowned upon. But as to how one revises or not, that must always be the poet's prerogative.
Siham
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