I haven't done collaborative writing for ages and this was great fun. Not sure it felt particularly intimate, but the tiny writing challenges definitely inspired me. Thanks for organizing it, jjhunter!
[putting on poetry critic hat] The poems hang together pretty well given the constraints. Because everyone is working on the same theme but only had access to one or two lines that went before, the poems seem a bit like ponds full of ripples. That made me realize that I'm used to sonnets that seem to have a single sweep of movement in one direction. But I didn't realize that until I read these. It's fun to learn things that way!
It would be fascinating to see what kinds of movement could be created by tweaking the rules of the collaboration.
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[putting on poetry critic hat] The poems hang together pretty well given the constraints. Because everyone is working on the same theme but only had access to one or two lines that went before, the poems seem a bit like ponds full of ripples. That made me realize that I'm used to sonnets that seem to have a single sweep of movement in one direction. But I didn't realize that until I read these. It's fun to learn things that way!
It would be fascinating to see what kinds of movement could be created by tweaking the rules of the collaboration.