Oooh you're a naughty mess

the craft of verse/ all writing requires an enormous amount of work/ reading over some old work of mine i felt acute embarrassment at how flabby it was/ content and execution were ok/ it displayed promise/ but oh how much better crafted it could have been/ erudition is something i've always thought important/ after all reading alot gives one an 'intuitive' grasp of structure and a decent bank balance of words/ ironically literary thrift is predicated on a large stock of words/ i cannot be bothered to unpack this statement but those whom i want to understand it should/ so, word craft/ alot of work/ i was just reading an award winning writer's blog and was not only unimpressed but embarrassed/ it was truly appalling/ but one (i) must not fall into complacency just because the competition isn't much/ one must perfect for the sake of art itself/ but this statement is absurd because there is great literature out there/ maybe nothing is currently being produced, but there is great stuff in print/ anthony burgess i admire enormously/ hubert selby jr too/ i've read quite a few great books/ i'm simply put off by pretty much everything i read on the net/ of course this is one of the main arguments against giving everyone a voice/ when one could only be printed through (predominantly) a publishing house there was at least some degree of selectivity/ clearly certain genres attract a lower class of writer but one could at least have some system of avoidance/ but when the little man is given a voice the flood gates open and forth spills the most unmitigated sea of shit/i'm acutely aware that i've a fucking pilgrimage of no mean length to make before my writing is even passable/ but this doesn't mean i cannot make valid criticisms of other shit/ i tried one online writing community but the individuals you encounter there are so highly strung that their criticism is never constructive/