RL, plenty of people write poems about shows.... Or did you mean something else?

t coughcough Ping, Plei.

No, that's what I meant, I'm just being a bitch. I've read very little good fan poetry, and I've read *one* fan poem that made me go "wow, I wish I could do that". And that even doesn't really count, because it was a sonnet cycle about The Gift. Which, while an amazing effort, it's not the kind of writing I'm into doing myself.

Whereas for fic *daily* I read stories that make me *ache* with the desire to be able to kick that much ass. Stories that could have very easily been written by fiction-writing professionals; stories by people who are better than I am and better maybe than I'll ever be.

I love fandom, and ficdom. I'm in love with it so much I think about it daily, and I'd like nothing better than to do well in it, have the people I respect and admire respect me in return. Isn't that a basic desire in any field? But I'm put out because (right now at least) my prose is not amazing or even very good. My poetry *is* very good-- I believe that. I wish I had the opportunity to contribute to fandom, which I love so much, in the way fic-writers do, with the thing I am strong at. But there's really no market that I've seen of yet.

I love poetry, but I rarely think in poetry. I can come up with near-poetic sentences, but I'm afraid my skills poem-wise lie in the William the Bloody Awful realm.

I can't write poetry. Actually, I can, but it sucks. Very much.

Any idiot can write doggrel. You know, you need a licence to drive a car or own a dog or even fish; you'd think there would be some sort of poetic licence.

Ba-DUM-dum. Zing!

Dude, chick never posted our StS, did she?

lm? I know she was still working on it. Don't know if she's finished it. I know that post-deadline subs will, so it's been said, eventually go up.

I'm just intensely curious, you know?

Dana! Hello. I've been in Internet hell.

Micole! I don't see you on IM.