Criticism - Guidelines

I suppose, the way one takes a suggestion/comment/critique depends on the person doing the taking. Personally, I enjoy it when someone takes my writing and suggests a different way to say it. Play with my line breaks, word choices, etc. and show me what you have. The bottom line is this, if I don't like it or don't think it says/does what I was trying to say, then I don't have to use it BUT I still thank you kindly for the suggestion. It means, to me anyway, that you thought enough about my work to take the time to play with it, read it, digest it, and try to help me make it a better piece of poetry.

I hope that any and all readers of my work understand that I love to do workshopping. My work has grown and matured from that very thing. I have a group of other writers that I do workshopping with from college and we all know that we can take each others work and move the lines around, change stanza/line breaks, offer word suggestions and we have a ball with it.  

----- just wandering the maze of hallways in my bent mind!