On Hiatus and Returns

some new members may not know me, but this thread isn't for them :p. I disappeared mysteriously after the summer, and have now returned. Since people were asking, I decided to make this thread to try and explain my absence.


No, I don't have any concrete reason, and no, no-one died. I found myself sick of my own work. Everything I wrote was stale and predictable--if not to others, at least to me. I had become my own cliche, and I couldn't write anymore. Nothing was inspirational, and I lost any semblance of creativity.

Since I was so down writing-wise, my ability to review too suffered. I didn't know what to say or how to help people.

So, simply put, I left.
Sorry.


However, I'm doing better, and I'm much happier, in general, now then I was before. I'm still not writing nearly as much as I used to, but I don't write the same as I used to, either.

Anyway, the point is, I am back, and I am critiquing again.
So.... hello.

hey. Not to sound rude or anything but I never noticed you left

Oy, take that question mark out of your title! Everyone needs a break at some time or another. Glad you're back.

haha, no worries.

I only posted this because people kept asking.

I hardly noticed I left :p

Funny. I wonder if anyone noticed you left...they probably did.

That's better

Much better (Not sure why he's saying it)

I hate that feeling. I haven't really written in months. Makes me sick. How did you get over it? Just...time?

Anyway, welcome back, Ed. Did you miss the name-changing thing? Anyway, I used to be cadmium, if you did miss that. I noticed you were gone. *makes faces at all who didn't* Glad your long absence from the poetry forums (and all the other forums that I don't care about quite as much) is over. Hey, and you had your birthday! Happy belated b-day!

-Colly