>tfw I'm going to submit poems to a competition for the first time everFeeling very nervous about this bros. Anybody else ever attempted to publish their poetry?
>>25088714post it and we might be able to improve it
>>25089572No. Dont post it. Because stuff you posted online cant be published.
>>25088714I'm up to the hundreds for publications. Mostly for poetry. You're taking an important step. Even if it doesn't work out, keep writing.
>>25089572I don't want to potentially dox myself, sorry.It's a very scary feeling to submit poetry like this with my real name attached and all. I feel vulnerable, like I'm setting myself up to be humiliated or something. I've only had one other thing published in the past, and it still makes me cringe because what I published is so different to the kind of thing I want to be associated with. It was like I was trying too hard to please the reader so it came across as infantile and inauthentic or something.
>>25088714Fail upwards. Nobody succeeds the first time. If you place, great. If not, don't give up. Learn from what fails.
>>25088714> I'm going to submit poems to a competition for the first time everfuck yeah, good luck
>>25088714good luck
>>25089641Hey anon. Good luck. I'm not trying to be mean at all, but it will probably get rejected. Most things do. Keep your head up, log into submittable, and give your work the legs it deserves by submitting it to a lot of people
>>25088714What's the poem about?
>>25088714>Anybody else ever attempted to publish their poetry?No.Poetry contests are for fat leftist women going to college with daddy's money. Since I'm a white man and I'm not gay, I had no business entering a contest like that. Anyone involved in that whole scene vehemently despises me for what I am, and even among those who don't hate me, they're still not going to vote for my poems no matter what since I'm not a lesbian nigger or something.What you're talking about is engaging with something near-adjacent to normie academia... Well, you can do that if you want to, just know that they don't want you and you're never going to fit in unless you castigate yourself pathetically.They literally only care about what your twitter labels are. Unless your poetry is about dilating your cunt they won't vote for it.
