DiM wrote:Blitzaholic wrote:DiM wrote:nah, it doesn't attract me at all. i'd much rather pursue an artistic. i've fancied poetry quite a lot. got a few hundred of them at home. never published though. just a few appearances on radio. also cooking is my passion. i make a great fish stuffed with veggies and my lamb steak is famous. but for the moment i'm stuck as a manager

i got a few hundred poems myself and 1 was published
nice. i never bothered to make a book of poems. i either have to pay a publishing house to do the book and that's really expensive or i have to give them my poems they publish them (if they think they're good enough) and i get only 10% of the profit. blood suckers. i do all the work and get 10%. idiots. if it had been at least 50/50 i would have considered the option.
so until then my poems will just sit around my house collecting dust.

well, i got lucky, i was attending college waiting for my class to start, was bored, and saw a readers digest magazine for a poetry contest in the back of the book, so i applied and they said if it makes the top 50, they will mail me, and it did, they mailed me a certificate congratulating me and the book that it got entered in, was pretty happy, but there is very little to no money in it, so i never pursued it, even though the company wanted me to.