Do you have a question about writing? Pay to subscribe and send your questions to itsottessab@gmail.com. Every month or so I will pick one or two questions to answer in this column. Paula Rego, Dog Woman, 1994, Dear Ottessa, I’ve been writing poems since middle school, but I’ve never shown my poems to anybody. I’m twenty-seven now. I always thought I was probably a bad poet, or not even a real poet. A fake mediocre poet, maybe.