The workshop guidelines are a work in progress, so we can always go back and revise them later. But there are also the first thing that new people learn about the group, so I want them to show that we are serious and thoughtful about the work we're doing.
As I think through trigger warnings in this particular context, I'm realizing that the people I've seen drop out of workshops are always writers, usually right after a bad critique. So I feel like it's a situation where the trigger warnings need to err on the side of protecting the writer vs the reader. Which is a very different situation than a movie or a fic or a college course.
I rewrote the guidelines, and we're getting a new influx of people (because I just messaged all the people in the MeetUp group that I'm not planning on posting any more events on MeetUp and that if people want to join the listserv that I migrated the group to, they need to reach out to me). So, we'll see how it goes.
I really want these guidelines to make the group robust, even if I end up leaving to take a more formal course.
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Date: 2019-03-28 12:32 pm (UTC)The workshop guidelines are a work in progress, so we can always go back and revise them later. But there are also the first thing that new people learn about the group, so I want them to show that we are serious and thoughtful about the work we're doing.
As I think through trigger warnings in this particular context, I'm realizing that the people I've seen drop out of workshops are always writers, usually right after a bad critique. So I feel like it's a situation where the trigger warnings need to err on the side of protecting the writer vs the reader. Which is a very different situation than a movie or a fic or a college course.
I rewrote the guidelines, and we're getting a new influx of people (because I just messaged all the people in the MeetUp group that I'm not planning on posting any more events on MeetUp and that if people want to join the listserv that I migrated the group to, they need to reach out to me). So, we'll see how it goes.
I really want these guidelines to make the group robust, even if I end up leaving to take a more formal course.