An Uncongenial Task

[poliphilo]

Ailz and I have started in on the Atos form. We're at the stage of making notes. We don't entirely agree about strategy. Ailz thinks we need to tell them every little thing that's wrong with her. I think we should select for maximum impact. She's probably right. My problem is I can't stop thinking like a writer.

I wonder who we're writing for. Will it be someone who understands what they're reading or a box-ticker?

Comments

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Surely, you are writing for a box-ticker: however they personally respond to the form, their job is likely to be feeding your responses into a computerised system.

So the aim is to tick as many boxes as possible, to score points at so many points per tick. In other words, as we all knew, Ailz is right!

(It's not a good system. In fact, it's a very bad system. But right now, your aim is to game it).

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

The first thing is to work out exactly what game is being played.

[basefinder.livejournal.com]

This sounds a lot like filling out disability paperwork for the Veterans Administration when one leaves military service here in the U.S.

The prevailing thought over here is to include every little thing, that way if something that seems minor proves to be serious later, at least it was documented. May or may not apply for the Atos process?

At any rate I know the paperwork and ordeal is a nuisance.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I think you're right. My instinct is to boil everything down to the essentials- as Chekhov would have done- but I think that's entirely the wrong strategy for this particular gang.