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Good.

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Well, these are some good--
these are some good ideas

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to start with.

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I mean, to me, this is sort
of the most important thing,

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if you're going to
pick a place that you

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want to interrogate or
install a thing in, is to have

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some kind of tension with that.

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You should have, not
necessarily a dislike,

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but it should be some kind of
electricity that will perhaps

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generate something for
the work that you're

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writing against something.

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So I got a couple questions
for each of these spaces.

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Then I'm actually going to ask
you to write for a little bit.

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I did promise this would be a
partially generative workshop,

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or wholly generative, perhaps.

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So a couple of questions
to think about when

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we're thinking about spaces.

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One is what do the readers want?

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What do the viewer want?

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What do the viewers
want in this space?

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What are they looking for?

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I think that's important.

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Because if what we
want is to be read,

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is to get this in
front of readers,

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how do we convince readers
to click on our thing

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or to like our thing or
to promote our comment?

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And how-- which is to say,
what are they here for?

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What do they want?

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Are we here just
for entertainment?

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Are we here-- are we
here trolling for sex?

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Are we looking for people
that may have noticed us

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and posted a missed
connection of us?

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Or, this is one of my favorites.

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Do you know this?

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Jennifer Knox.

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She's [? an interesting poet ?]]

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Corgis, they're everywhere,
and yet, nowhere at all.

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While many people believe
they have seen a Corgi

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or said the word Corgi, or
the plural form, Corgum,

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only a handful of very
enlightened people

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know that a Corgi is a dog, and
quite unlike any other living

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thing on Earth.

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Corgis are the product of
millions of years of evolution.

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things making love
to other things--

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sometimes very sharp things
with teeth, but that's

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bound to happen.

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Corgis are the big--

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So it's Jennifer Knox.

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She's an interesting poet.

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You should check out her
poem, Chicken Bucket,

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which is a really,
pretty excellent poem.

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I mean, she does these
videos on YouTube.

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And most of them have 500
hits, or something like that.

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But this one has 270,000 hits.

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Can anyone guess
why that might be?

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Corgis.

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Her dogs.

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Yeah.

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It's a pet related, and
certainly corgi related,

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and actually has
photos of corgis

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and this sort of
bizarre, fake history--

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fake scientific
history of corgis.

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But again, if we're looking
to-- she's very successfully

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hijacked a reader in this.

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People will keep watching.

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They will listen
to whatever she has

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to say as long as
there are photos

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of cute pets on the screen.

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Whether or not that's
useful for the thing

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you want to write here
or not is anyone's guess.

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But if you're
looking for readers,

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you know-- because 270,000
hits is a lot for a poet.

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So we're looking at these.

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Or the other question is, if we
don't want to hijack readers,

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but we would like
to get-- we just

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like to put our things in these
places and get our readers,

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or readers that find our work in
say a literary magazine online,

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and we want to get them to
come to-- actually to come

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to our work in these places,
how do we get them there?

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Which is a sort of big
question-- website, blog.

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There's Twitter, Facebook.

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There's a lot of
ways of doing that.

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But you're like, I'd like
to write for a while.

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And so, this is our job.

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I'm going to give you
10 or 15 minutes here

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to just generate some text.

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And if you need a pencil,
we have, apparently,

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a lot of pencils up front.

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What I'd like you to do is
to choose your-- you choice

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in a space.

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If you had a laptop, you're
welcome to do this on a laptop.

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If you prefer to do a hard
copy, that's totally fine.

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But I would like you to
consider a space, digital space,

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or his bathroom stall
is fine if you prefer

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like a sort of analog space,
you know, a meat space, I guess,

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in multiple ways, then
you're welcome to do that.

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But I'd like you to
think of what a space.

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Think about why people are there
and what either might keep them

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there or might draw them there.

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And I'd like you to--

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I mean, if you
have access to it,

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it should be a space that
you know somewhat well.

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What is this space like?

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What do people
post in this space?

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And I'd like you
to then start just

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playing with some language.

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I want you to write.

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I'm going to make you
write a draft or something.

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It doesn't have to be very good.

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And no, you don't
have to share it.

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But I want you to
start something that is

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in response to that space now.

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You have 10 or 15 minutes or so.

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We'll see how you're doing.

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I'd like-- you could use
whatever material is there

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already if you think you
have a particular space.

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If you're thinking of-- if you
want to use missed connections,

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if you know what
missed connections is,

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you probably read
missed connections

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and you have a good sense of
what people post on there.

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It's like you were the
hot girl with the car.

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You want to party or something.

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But I'd like you to generate
at least three chunks of text

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in the next 15 minutes.

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It doesn't matter
how good it is.

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I just want you to
start something.

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Three chunks of text that have
to be related in some way.

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So it could-- a chunk of
text could be a stanza.

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That's fine.

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It could be a draft
of a small thing.

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It doesn't really matter.

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But the chunks
have to be related,

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because they're going
to be put in sequence.

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OK?

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So you going to generate
three chunks of text.

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They could be the same speaker.

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They could be two different
speakers in a conversation.

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They could be
related by the space.

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It doesn't really matter
how you think about that.

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So I'll give you a 10 or
15 minutes just to write.

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