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Date Posted: 12:06:30 09/06/04 Mon
Author: Cat
Author Host/IP: 172.198.103.111
Subject: Re: LitKicks and where it's going
In reply to: Cat 's message, "Re: LitKicks and where it's going" on 11:43:12 09/06/04 Mon

Whoops! I got too excited and I hit the "enter" button too soon.

letter, cont.

"Mindless Chatter" and all its variations, is one thing, but when we were discussing art, politics, poetry, I loved it.

Doreen and I are not going to agree on one thing: I am NOT a believer in "collaborative" efforts. I am definitely a Howard Roark in that respect. I think your 24 Poetry Session was fucking FANTASTIC. The result was AMAZING! I had absolutely no idea it was going to turn out that good ... but to be honest, I think that most of credit has to go to the editors -- you, Jamelah and Caryn. You took the work of several incredibly talented poets and somehow sewed them together. The result was not a patchwork quilt of styles and feelings, but something a lot closer to a whole garment. That was amazing, what you did!

But ... I think I MAY speak for everyone (even Doreen) when I say that we all want recognition in our own rights, not as part of a team. And we want to develop our styles in our OWN individual ways. I don't see how collaborating as part of a team effort is going to help me do that. It's going to help me learn how to conform to a team style, that's for sure, but I can't see how that's going to do anything except make my writing and my ideas more generic and less original.

Instead of a collaborative effort, what I would prefer is a challenge. You set the rules, you give us the theme, then you challenge us to come up with our own, individual compositions under that theme. That way, each artist gets credit for his or her own work and it doesn't become an undistinguished single piece. Sounds a lot like school? OK, yeah, but aren't we here to hone our writing styles? I could think of all kinds of Litkicks collections originating from such challenges, and we'd each get a chance to showcase our own work in the process.

I have no idea what you plan to do with the October thing, but from what I've read, it sounds an awful lot like another collaboration .. and who will know whose words are whose when the whole thing is completed?

Now, as for contributing to your website: I snt you an email recently. Did you get it? I was asking if you were accepting article contributions. If you are, I have some ideas for Alternative Victorian and a couple of the other categories. Just let me know if that part is still open, and what the word limitations and other criteria are. You see, I not only want to participate, I think it's about time that I show my support in other ways, as well.

Sorry, that I am just going on and on, but I think it's important that we all tell you exactly how we think and feel. For my part, there is no way I'm just going to keep my mind closed and give up on Litkicks. I think you had good reasons for wanting many of these changes, already. I have seen, and see in the future, many good things coming out of your ideas. But I can also see the drawbacks, and I wouldn't be human if I didn't want to tell you what they are.

Sincerely,


Cat.

P.S. I meant what I said about the structure of the message boards! Your computer genius is showing!

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