Hi, Lawrence. You make some interesting points.
On Monday 31 Jan 2005 21:58, Lawrence Upton wrote:
> people are often wrong-headed enough when theyre not anonymous
>
True. But sometimes people can say what they really feel about a poem
anonymously when otherwise they would stay silent or choose to conform to the
group ethos.
> the idea that a self-selecting anonymous group is likely to improve writing
> sounds highly suspect to me
>
I prefer to think of it as market testing a product. Audiences are anonymous,
too.
> as to the suppression of community, I think youre bonkers
>
Online poetry workshop communities are fickle things. After bumbling around
the online poetry workshop scene for the past half dozen years I decided that
the way workshops are conducted online were all a bit "samey". So I decided
to code up a different approach. Not a better approach, just different, in
the hope that it might trigger a bit more diversity. Minimising the peer
pressure is just one of the different approaches encoded within the website.
Of course, I could well be certifiable.
> I think I'll stay in the poets' plantation
>
I keep meaning to pop along to the Writers Forum Workshop. I've got a new
year's resolution to force myself out to more real life poetry happenings in
London this year.
> I'm sorry; buit your experiment page reminds me of educational documents -
> often written as MEd projects - I used to suffer in inservice training
>
Well, it is an outline of the experiment ...
> L
>
Thanks for taking the time to respond
Rik
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