>consider myself a short story writer if anything
>never satisfied with my works, rarely finish them
>decide to start writing poetry
>crank out one a night
>mfw they're shit
>mfw it's fun as hell anyway
You go, anon!This was a sincere post.
Also post some of your shitty poetry.
I know that feel. Though I tend to crank out several at once and not even review them.
Well let's see some!
>spend months writing and revising a short story, consider it my best work
>send it out to several lit mags, all reject it
>meanwhile a story I wrote in two hours and spent only a few minutes revising gets picked up on the second try
>it's mediocre and I'd much rather have the other one be my first publication
I don't know how to feel.
>>7465255
What lit mags?
>be walking a round my daily life
>visions of stunning prose and poetry flow through my head
>countless ideas for novels stem from my daydreams
>go home and write them out
>unhappy with execution and so bin them
I want off of this ride. Some day I will be satisfied with my work.
>>7465164
Sounds like you're winning, OP.
>>7466624
Jersey Devil Press
I like writing poetry to short stories. But I like reading novels to both.
>>7465164
I know that feel OP
>torture myself writing long-thought stories
>it's mostly shit
>one day I give in and I try to write really fast without thinking about anything to easily emulate stream of consciousness
>it's still shit but it was fun as hell
>>7465255
Shit, this is how my first publication went too. I had one that I thought was actually good, and another I pared down from a chapter of my novel just to fit the length guidelines of a few places.
The hacked-up novel fragment got published and the coherent short story I slaved over has yet to find a taker.
>http://thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com/
Just wanna share with you guys a cool resource for when you're looking for places to publish your stuff. Of course, duotrope would be better, but it's not a free service anymore.
>>7465164
Fuck yeah. I write poetry I don't like either. I also record music that I don't like and that's also fun.