Your relationship to comments is a reflection of your relationship to your creativity

My relationship to comments is one of suspicion. Having subjected myself to poetry workshop environments, as well as self-help groups, I’ve found that comments can either be about what I wrote; or they can simply be reactions on the part of the reader. Sorting out which is which, for me, is difficult.

So, if your statement is true, then I’m suspicious of my own creativity. I guess I can kind of relate to that, but suspicion isn’t quite the feeling. I don’t quite trust that my creativity will be there for me day after day. If I have a “hot” idea, I think it was dumb luck, and that dumb luck might not be around tomorrow.

So, this is an interesting idea. I know that, when the day comes that I welcome comments, something will have changed for me regarding my relationship to my own creativity.

Thanks, Emma.