Poetry Fishbowl Report for June 13, 2008
Yesterday's poetry fishbowl went substantially slower than usual, breaking the general upward trend. For those of you who made it, thank you for your attention.
I wrote 10 poems. Of those, I posted one, "Memories of Wind and Clay," as the freebie. Two people have said they plan to sponsor poems via snailmail payment. There were a total of 25 comments including mine. 5 people posted prompts while the fishbowl was open, and I found inspiration elsewhere too. I wound up closing the fishbowl earlier than usual because nothing new was coming in.
This month's general donor was je_reviens and there are a couple of poem sponsorships pending. I should be able to get a perk post up later tonight. Your appreciation and support are most welcome.
Almost all of these poems were single inspiration pieces; the prompts I got were solid and there wasn't a lot of room to mix and match. I did, however, discover some useful new materials. I'm also pleased with the poetry I got, which is sufficient to the day, since the primary goal is to get a good batch of poems written.
So ... what went wrong? Possible reasons for June's low turnout include:
I wrote 10 poems. Of those, I posted one, "Memories of Wind and Clay," as the freebie. Two people have said they plan to sponsor poems via snailmail payment. There were a total of 25 comments including mine. 5 people posted prompts while the fishbowl was open, and I found inspiration elsewhere too. I wound up closing the fishbowl earlier than usual because nothing new was coming in.
This month's general donor was je_reviens and there are a couple of poem sponsorships pending. I should be able to get a perk post up later tonight. Your appreciation and support are most welcome.
Almost all of these poems were single inspiration pieces; the prompts I got were solid and there wasn't a lot of room to mix and match. I did, however, discover some useful new materials. I'm also pleased with the poetry I got, which is sufficient to the day, since the primary goal is to get a good batch of poems written.
So ... what went wrong? Possible reasons for June's low turnout include:
- The fishbowl was announced for Wednesday and my Internet service was out Wednesday & Thursday, causing a delay. People who dropped by Wednesday looking for it may not have been here Friday. This seems very likely.
- Weather is going berserk all over the Midwest, causing widespread outages. Other people may have missed the fishbowl due to lack of access. This also seems likely.
- Traffic seems to peak on Monday, remain fairly strong midweek, and bottom out towards the weekend. Fairly likely.
- The economy is rapidly worsening. People might not have spending money for poetry. Possible explanation for lack of income but not lack of participation.
- People may not have liked the theme. However, it was the second-most popular one in the poll, so this doesn't seem very likely.
- People may be tired of the fishbowl and/or the poetry. Not very likely given established feedback, unless this pattern repeats enough to override previous data.