I love the workshop format you described and will try to remember to use it if I'm ever in another workshop setting!
I'm really curious how your approach goes.
I imagine that, for some people, if they have to ask for a particular kind of response, then that response feels less authentic and meaningful to them.
Example A:
"Here is a poem I wrote"
"It's great!"
Example B:
"Here is a poem I wrote. I alternate between two different metaphors for love; does that feel jarring and disorienting or does it feel more like you are smoothly alternating between two different views of the same thing?"
"The alternation works really well -- I felt like I was being carried back and forth between two perspectives in a way that showed how both of them were true"
I personally would value B more because it is more specific, but I think there are people who really don't like having to ask for things and feel uncomfortable talking about what they want, and feel intuitively that other people should Just Know what to say/do so that everyone will be comfortable. And I figure those people would prefer A because it is less work for them, including less work trying to think from other people's point of view about what they might find interesting or confusing in a piece of creative work.
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I'm really curious how your approach goes.
I imagine that, for some people, if they have to ask for a particular kind of response, then that response feels less authentic and meaningful to them.
Example A:
"Here is a poem I wrote"
"It's great!"
Example B:
"Here is a poem I wrote. I alternate between two different metaphors for love; does that feel jarring and disorienting or does it feel more like you are smoothly alternating between two different views of the same thing?"
"The alternation works really well -- I felt like I was being carried back and forth between two perspectives in a way that showed how both of them were true"
I personally would value B more because it is more specific, but I think there are people who really don't like having to ask for things and feel uncomfortable talking about what they want, and feel intuitively that other people should Just Know what to say/do so that everyone will be comfortable. And I figure those people would prefer A because it is less work for them, including less work trying to think from other people's point of view about what they might find interesting or confusing in a piece of creative work.
And thank you for sharing the Shipley poem.