Damn if this isn't exactly how it happens - from a group leader/dissecting mod's POV.Matrixman wrote:As Luci said, you're welcome to check out the Chronicles chapter reads to see how we did it (and survived). But, anyway, she gave you the clean, sanitized version of how it's done. But to get a better sense of the terror of it all, I present:Waddley Hasselhoff wrote:So... how does a group read work, exactly? I kidna avoid them because my brain doesn't like it when I do things to make it work. But Lord knows I love me some Gap. Whatta I do?
(Not sayin I will, just... askin.)
Doing Donaldson Dissections - The Real Story
1. Volunteer or be volunteered to summarize a chapter chosen by you or chosen by the group leader
2. Read your assigned chapter critically, take notes...or not
3. After your initial burst of enthusiasm, blink twice and shudder in cold panic as you realize what you've gotten yourself into
4. Go and do other actual fun stuff, while deluding yourself that it'll all come together by itself in your head when the time comes for you to actually write the damn thing
5. Blissfully ignore the first few tentative reminders from your group leader that your dissection is due shortly
6. As increasingly worried PM's from your group leader start piling in your inbox, avoid the Gap forum altogether while you desperately try to read the half-legible notes you had taken...or if you didn't take notes, re-read the chapter and write your dissection as you go, typing by the seat of your pants
7. Finally submit your dissection after the other Gap participants have given you up for dead - or just at one of Jenn's parties
8. Decide that you might just want to do another chapter, cuz all Watchers are masochistic to a degree
I started reading TRS sometime ago, then stopped. I may get back into it and follow along, but I doubt that I'll do a chapter since FR dissection is tentatively scheduled for early 2008.
