Rationale:
- Leadership - someone has to volunteer to facilitate a second group. (Personal note: Neil is a tough act to follow.)
- Accommodation - loss of space due historic vault construction will make one group more difficult to arrange, let alone two.
- Many participants are not active writers, but provide comments - freeing up reading slots.
- Actively critiquing other's work can be as valuable as having one's own work critiqued.
- If participants limit comments to two things that work well and two that could be improved, then everyone will get a chance to speak.
- Some people prefer not to speak, but to provide written comments*.
- Summer's 'a coming' and numbers always drop.
- We know and trust each other and its helps to introduce new members into a consistent environment.
- We can procrastinate, which is a writer's second favorite pastime.
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Geoff
2 comments:
I think all these insights are right on target. (Particularly the one about procrastination.) I would deeply regret the loss of such a helpful and stable environment which currently thrives at The Write Stuff meetings.
Mary Ann
I'd like to thank Geoff for posting this excellent summary of the discussion.
I do think we may need to adhere more closely to the two good points, two bad points format enshrined in our rules. I hesitate to disturb the free flow we have enjoyed so far, but that's probably the easiest way to make sure everyone who wants to comment has a chance.
Readers will still get the benefit of additional comments in writing. The group won't hear them, of course, but if 10 people give two comments either way it's unlikely anything major will be missed.
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