Surely, the 'Offsets' Collaboration has been itself? I don't understand
Alison's notion that we had a 'hit' rate, or that there is any kind of
'competition.' Alison, I'd have thought that a big chunk of the Offsets
project was loss of ownership - not the want of it?
Rupert (ill with flu)
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From: "Alison Croggon" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 10:41 PM
Subject: Re: Offsets - observations (was Fw: Offsets: Nodes for round 22)
> On 14/2/04 9:15 AM, "Trevor Joyce" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > Yes. I think that's been a success, though after a brief flurry,
> > attempts to create mischief by imitating the mannerisms of other
> > players petered out. How successful did you find you were at guessing
> > who wrote what? Or did it matter?
>
> I think on average I've had about a 50 per cent strike rate, and it's been
> an intriguing part of the game. In some cases I've been totally surprised
> when the name was revealed. I know I've tried to be fairly various; I've
> written things which anyone familiar with my work might guess easily were
> mine, but I hope others that were not.
>
> I think people have on the whole just looked at what was in front of them,
> which tend to be the more recent poems. In a way, I quite like the
forward
> motion of it, it's a bit like a flame going along a line of gunpowder...
>
> I also liked the momentum of every day. Perhaps you could do a mini
offsets
> that had fewer nodes but happened every day?
>
> Best
>
> A
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> Alison Croggon
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