It's your choice. If ya enjoy it, then just keep doing it and anyone who doesn't like it can just deal wit it : 3

I'm confused, sir.

I would implore you to continue. You have a marvelous talent that shouldn't be given up completely. At least it is best to give yourself a break from time to time. ^_^

It is your choice though, and you must do what you feel is right.

No reason to force yourself if you don't want to do it

lack of output will always equal lack of support, you can't expect people to wait forever, it's a basic principle of artsing

if you really want to write, you'll find you can't simply just stop. give it time, it'll come.

Yeah.. I should have expected that. I have been pretty dead lately...

Thanks for reminding me that gratification isn't always instant~

your good at it and i enjoyed reading them last year

It saddens me to hear that you will not be engaging in NaPoeWriMo this year. Though, as one who also follows the muses that be, I can understand if you feel a lack of inspiration. To force yourself to write when the proper drive is not there is definately not a good idea. I've tried to force myself to be creative at times when I was not in my right frame of creativity and, well, I always wound up scrapping the work, loathing it, or taking forever to get it done.

As for interest, I know exactly where you are coming from. You put a lot of work and yourself into something to only feel as though nobody really cares about what you have to say or do. However, as I've come to understand myself, the number of folks who follow isn't so much important as knowing there are those out there who do benefit and appreciate your work. Even if only one person is moved by what you do you should feel proud of yourself. After all, if you hadn't written what you did, said individual may not have felt understood or inspired themselves.

Personally, as of late, I have put hours of effort into works that will only see a total of four people. However, sharing these works with said people has really meant a lot to me as it has been a great way to improve my talent through sharing special times with some very wonderful folks to whom I can relate with at levels I never believed I ever could.

The above in mind, I hope you consider how much your work means to those who read it. For me, last year's NaPoeWriMo helped teach me some styles I had no idea about until I read what you had to present. As a result, I have gotten braver in writing poetry myself and appreciate you taking the time to not only share your feelings, but illustrate to us how delightful poetry can be at making a point. Even if you scrap NaPoeWriMo this year, I hope you at least write how you feel through your gift as ideas come to you. Furthermore, I hope you will share those you feel up to sharing so those of us who watch you can delight in what you do as further inspiration and a way to know that the arts are truly a wonderful way to make friends and relate where, otherwise, we may not relate at all.

My best to you, Neo. May you continue to take pride in your gift and express yourself how you feel when and how you feel it. :)

You have no idea how much better this made me feel... especially coming from somebody whose been working with one of my favorite artists and friends, Nishi. You'll be happy to hear that I'll be doing my regularly scheduled poetry this year~

I really should have known better than to of thought that nobody out there really cared for it anymore... I actually got some anti-sentiment from a couple of people, but I took their opinion way too seriously, and mixed with how depressed I actually have been lately it drove me a bit insane with the desperation of being recognized as an author. I'm not nearly there yet, I don't think... but I think I could make it some day if I really wanted to. It also started to raise the question of if I really wanted this to be a bigger part of my life, or if it was just a weird side-dream that's taking up precious time that seems to be slipping from my fingers like a fine powder thinner than sand.

Your dedication to the works that quote "will only see a total of four people." is really inspiring to the core of what being an artist is all about. Its not about what kind of hype or recognition you receive, but about embracing the arts themselves and truly enjoying yourself. And if it so happens that said works become a bigger part of your life, then that's even better! But that's not something one can just simply expect to happen to them, I mean, there's a LOT of voices out there trying to be heard. I am grateful that I've amassed the attention of all of my followers, including you...

I was really touched to learn that I was able to pass some of my knowledge to you. I did a lot of research the year I dabbled into different form factors, and its really cool to hear that the work I did years ago is still being an influence on somebody besides me.

Best to you too, Yoshi, I'll do my best to bring everybody some work to consider this year~ Thanks again....

I enjoy reading your works bud.

With luck, I'll be giving you something really awesome to read XD *hint hint*

Curse this path I walk down
Let it fade from the earth
Let it vanish forever

It wastes my time and energies
No more tolerance for the pain
No more strength to continue

There are other things to be done
This isn't the right moment
This isn't for me

But I think of nothing else

Everything is frustration
Nothing on the page
Nothing on my mind

Horizon is empty
It's all behind me now
It's all coming to an end

Faith is gone
They've left me now
They've left and I'm alone

But my desire lingers on


(I read a few of your poems and got inspired to cobble something together. I won't pretend I'm any good at this, but you made me want to write something. ^_^;)

Hey~~~ That's not bad!

You should join me and write some more!

The only critique I have is that (and at first I didn't think of it either) there is no punctuation. And while having no punctuation and using capitalization can make a good flow, you'd be surprised what the right comma or period can do to really enhance the work. It may not make any sense, but its an enhancement on direction, which when it comes to poetry its best to guide the reader just enough to make them keep focus on what the work is truly about~

Thank you for writing this for me, I really appreciate it, and if you haven't read yet I'll be continuing my work anyway.

Yay! I'm glad you've decided to keep going. ^_^

I'll be honest: I've actually never written a poem before... Well, unless you count some, like, rhyming sentences I wrote about 15 years ago "poetry." This was my first "real" one, so it's definitely flawed. Thanks for the tip. I'll try to implement it into future works, if I write anything else. ^_^;

And I was very happy to write this for you. I thought maybe it'd be a bit more inspirational than just a pep talk speech. :)

Maybe you should reconsider why you were writing in the first place.
What is the purpose of poetry to you?

Personally, I think you should take care of yourself before worrying about silly online affairs anyways!
If shit is going down and making you depressed, it's not like you can hop online and pretend everything will fall into place.

I discovered that I wasn't writing this for myself anymore this year, after this response...

I'm writing it for not only FA, but to continue my commitment to the goal, to continue what I started to have a collection of poetry every year.

Thank you though~ I know you'll always have my back <3...