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Posted by MegLiz82 on Fri Nov 19, 2004 11:44 am
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Hi fellow writers! My name's Megan. I've been trying to find a place online to post my writings and in surfing the links at several different sites I stumbled upon this pleasant looking website.
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<br>I'd been putting some stuff up on poetry.com, but got fed up there as every poem has to be entered through their contest format, which limits the number of lines and size of the lines of your poem. I'm sorry, but you can't limit creativity. So I've been in quest of a new place to post. I'd tried the creating my own website thing, but I'm not tech savvy enough to create a site in the way I'd like it set up.
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<br>I hope you all like my stuff. I'll be good and abide by the 2 poems a day until I get most of my stuff here, once what I've got done so far is here it usually takes me a good while to get anything out (does anybody else go through spurts of writing?).
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<br>Hope all the post-ers on the site are well and thanks for having such a nice and user friendly site (and believe me I've looked at a lot of them!:))
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Posted by Phil on Fri Nov 19, 2004 1:20 pm
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Hi!
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<br>It's great to see new people around here : )
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<br>The two-per-day limit is really more of a suggestion; I just copied it from the old FAQ. If you submit more, I usually get around to approving all of them (no matter how many) all at once. Now granted, if you submit like 5,000 poems, I might put it off for a while, so try and be reasonable, but more than 2 per day is fine.
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<br>I didn't know that poetry.com was limiting submissions like that, but it seems like a really stupid way to run a site. Encourage creative behavior that conforms to these rules? That sort of defeats the whole purpose of writing (for me at least), which is for fun, not to conform to some 'standard.'
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<br>And lastly, I, too, am the sort of person that writes in spurts. For the most part, if you look through the stuff I've submitted, it's all grouped together, which is because it was mostly all written in the same period of time. I usually have three or four days when I write a bunch of stuff, and then months or even years will pass before I end up like that again.
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<br>Anyway, hello again, and thanks for coming by!
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Posted by rainrose on Wed Nov 24, 2004 10:58 am
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actually, poetry.com is a scam. They publish virtually every poem they publish.... read this
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<br><a href="http://www.poetism.com/scams.htm">http://www.poetism.com/scams.htm</a>
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<br>yeah... I was published twice. thank goodness I didn't buy anything.
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Posted by Ben Grader on Wed Dec 08, 2004 12:17 am
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Magliz82 Welcome to Poets Quill, I think you will find it a friendly site and not one where you will be restricted in any way. I too was warned off of Poetry.com which is as rainrose says a scam. Tony Hetherington if the UK Mail on Sunday sent them a file consisting of the guarantee statement from a purchase. YES you have guessed right they told him it was a lovely work and would be published in the next anthology and that he could purchase as many of them as he wished for x ?s. Areader had written in asking if their daughter was being conned by the site and he showed by this that she would indeed have been conned had she taken any notice of it.
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Posted by Bluesy Socrateaser on Tue Mar 10, 2009 3:27 am
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<blockquote ><div><cite>Quote</cite>you can't limit creativity</div></blockquote>
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<br />You can, but you <em>shouldn't.</em>
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<br />I never responded to poetry.com's publishing hype by submitting poetry. However I did enter one of their 'poetry slams', and came away as a winner of a silver medallion which I still have. I have never removed it from it's fitted plastic case, but it is weighty. They claim it's worth $50.00, but I have never had it appraised. So from that standpoint, I was quite pleased with the prize and the site. They still run that contest, though I never entered again.
<br />Frankly, it was a lot of effort.
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