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A member told me my discussion questions were too leading and it tanked our 'Klara and the Sun' chat last month.
They said, 'You're basically giving us the answer you want to hear,' so now I write three open-ended questions that start with 'how' or 'why' and let the group take it from there, but does anyone have a good example from a recent read?
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the_thomas2mo ago
That's a solid fix. For "Project Hail Mary" we asked "Why does the main character make that first big choice, and how would you have handled it?" Worked way better than asking if he was brave.
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patking2mo ago
Oh man, that's such a smarter way to get people talking. It reminds me of a book club where we spent twenty minutes arguing if a guy was a hero, and it went nowhere. Then someone asked why he even showed up to the meeting in chapter one, and suddenly everyone had a different take. Questions about reasons beat questions about labels every time.
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