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Welcome to the Variations Forum

Post by judih » August 25th, 2016, 3:20 pm

Welcome!

Glad you showed up. And here's how it works...
You have written something. You are willing to throw it into the spotlight and have others play their variations on your theme. They take your piece and re-write it. They might edit, play up a phrase, change line breaks or words: however they see fit.

If that describes you, or inspires you to try, come and start a new topic. You post and others will see how your muse moves them, and then post their variation.

May the energy flow.

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Post by sasha » August 25th, 2016, 4:13 pm

This sounds like fun - we called it "tagging" at AC, and just riffing at IPP. I'll start things off. One of the best at the latter site was a volley of haiku about our 1st cars. Mine ran something like
free wheelin'
roach in the ashtray
saab 93
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"Falsehood flies, the Truth comes limping after it." - Jonathan Swift, ca. 1710

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Re: Welcome to the Variations Forum

Post by Doreen Peri » August 25th, 2016, 4:50 pm

Sasha, I think what you're describing is what we call jamming ... like in our Word Jam events and the GO forum.

But I think this idea is a different idea (as I understand it). I'm thinking I understand it as something different than riffing or jamming or tagging.

Judih and SooZen were talking about it in another thread which inspired the formation of this forum.

I think the idea is that the original poster posts some piece of writing and then the person who replies to it edits, revises, or rewrites the other person's writing using his or her own style.

Did I get it right, Judih? :D

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Re: Welcome to the Variations Forum

Post by judih » August 25th, 2016, 10:32 pm

Yes, dor!
Variations on the poster's theme.

I'd take your saab, sasha and re-write it. Your theme, your style in my way. I might simply edit, play with punctuation or line-breaks, according to my own breathing pattern. I might pare down a sentence or up a syllable count, re-vamp a phrase. Who knows.

maybe after coffee this would occur. At the moment, I'm fairly illiterate.

In any case, let's start a new thread for each original piece, so that we can watch the action
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Post by sooZen » August 26th, 2016, 7:52 am

Okey dokey! :D

Looking forward to seeing what this will engender. Thank you judih and Doreen for the new space. Instead of writing new poems or new stories, I would (and will) post some stuff that is my archive that could use some "variations..."
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Post by judih » August 26th, 2016, 11:55 pm

go for it, sooZ

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Re: Welcome to the Variations Forum

Post by Doreen Peri » October 16th, 2016, 1:27 pm

It doesn't look like there's much interest so far.

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Post by judih » October 16th, 2016, 11:16 pm

not a lot!
but you never know

soo got the ball rolling. who's next?

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Post by Arcadia » December 18th, 2016, 1:47 pm

:D I´ll try it later...! :lol:

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Post by judih » December 18th, 2016, 11:02 pm

yay, arcadia!

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Re: Welcome to the Variations Forum

Post by Doreen Peri » February 27th, 2017, 3:44 pm

Still not much interest. Oh well. I think this one is destined for the archives where the forums that didn't last are filed. :)

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Re: Welcome to the Variations Forum

Post by judih » February 28th, 2017, 6:06 am

we tried something new. That in itself is good!

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Re: Welcome to the Variations Forum

Post by Doreen Peri » March 5th, 2017, 2:14 pm

YES!!! Definitely!

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