Audience feedback

Shannon was talking about telling a “bad” story at Carapace versus a “good” story at Carapace and I asked how she knew whether she had told a good or bad story. Was it from audience feedback?

People are still very supportive

and that is one of the confusing things.

People will still tell you did a great job

even though you know you sucked,

which makes it hard to know for sure.

I think if you

are a connoisseur of storytelling,

then you have your own internal mechanisms

for evaluating

and you can't --

There are a few people here

that you can say alright

Give it to me straight.

Tell me

how could that story be wonderful?

They'll talk to you about it.

Not only can audience feedback during the performance be confusing (like misleading facial expressions) but also conversational feedback after the show can be confusing as well (too polite).