RE: Major update to 100 Days of Poetry Challenge [Day 53]
He did say at the beginning of the challenge that he might change the rules along the way . I know that this kind of structure might be a bit uncomfortable for a free being like you love, but communication between the participants seems to have become a bit insular. This challenge was born to strengthen the community, but also to inspire budding writers. How are they however supposed to evolve if they do not get feedback on how to grow? And is art not there to communicate and maybe put sparks in others? If we just throw our stuff in the wind and live under glass domes like the little prices rose we become like her self-indulgent I feel and we loose our grounding. And to be frank there will be stuff that might suck but they cannot break out of that if no one gives them the time of day, just something to ponder <3
I am all for a weekly mention with a meaningful reason as to why. I am even all for a mandatory class day, those things seem fine and less structural... critique as mandatory is basically adding on anther challenge and frankly, I would not have entered had that been on the agenda. I am so all for community and that has been a great success for me so far in this as I've found kindred here in this challenge. ;)
This forced critique aspect is just not feeling great (imo).
Would you feel more comfortable in leaving just 2 comments on what the poem invoked in you he did offer both forms as option. and the reason he chose this over mandatory class is that some people cannot come to class as they are in different time zones or work at that time .
I understand the time-zone thing and the challenges here. So many needs to meet. I do prefer that option for sure as that is where I dwell these days. I was wondering if we could do something in a private (Only people in the challenge) "backroom" where we interact on documents through written interactions of feedback and general feelings to pieces at our leisure over the week.. I don’t know. Ugh, it’s getting so complicated.
if the open forum is the issue there is a goggle doc option maybe (what do you think @d-pend ) but I don't know if every one will understand how to use it and it could turn into total chaos. But the atmospheric feedback option is offered you don't need to do a guy LOL ;) let the idea germinate a bit ok? See how you feel about it then :)
I'd prefer to do mandatory class as well @mamadini, but the problem there is time zones, and in some cases technology. I do feel the project is lacking something. It was intended to be more than a motley crue of people all doing their own thing, because that's kind of how poetry on Steemit was before. You definitely could be right that this is not the way to go about remedying it, but I'm just not sure how else to. :(
I was wondering if we could do something in a private (Only people in the challenge) "backroom" where we interact on documents through written interactions of feedback and general feelings to pieces at our leisure over the week.. I don’t know. Ugh, it’s getting so complicated.