I want to share some tips with you in order for you to write clear, easy-to-read, helpful, insightful and value giving field reports. When you are writing your field reports, please consider touching on most or all of the points below.
What is the purpose of this field report?
Before typing your report up, think about the purpose of writing it. Typically field reports are written:
- To identify what is working in your social interactions and what is not.
- To get feedback from others on a sticking point/something you are doing wrong.
- To explain what you are doing right so that it may help others who might have the same sticking point.
- To convey your personality and what you do and how you do it when you go out.
- To think through/write out my own thought process and/or explain it to others.
- To track your progress over a period of time. Looking back on old field reports is helpful for many reasons, some of them include monitoring your progress, identifying recurring sticking points or limiting behaviors or beliefs.
Synopsis:
One helpful thing is to summarize what the report is all about at the very beginning. Writing a brief description of your report will remind you later when you are searching for an old post. It will also help your readers gain perspective on it from the get go.
Ways to make your field reports easier to read.
Do these things to make your reports clear, concise, directly to the point and easy to read.
- Anytime you type out conversation, put it in quotes.
- If you type out long conversations, put the most important parts in bold so we can skip the "fluff".
- Stay away from long winded explanations of why you did something and get to the point of what you did and how it went. Rationalizing in this way will not help you learn.
- Stay focused on the process you are learning. Getting caught up in any feelings about what is happening or who you are talking to/about will not lead you in the path of learning the process.
- Speaking of process, you could write the report divided into pieces of the the process.
- Distinguish between all the different groups/girls that you talked to. This is in quote to make it easy to read, you do not need to put your sets into quotes. Save that for conversation. For instance:
Set 1: Hot Blonde 1
Blah blah blah, Hot Blonde 1.
Set 2: Two Dudes and a Brunette
Blah blah blah, people, blah blah.
Set 3: Group of Five, 3 girls, 1 guy and a Tranny.
Blappity blappity, this crazy tranny, blappity blappity blap.
Field Report Etiquette
- Don't brag about something you did. Bragging is a behavior that leads to deluding yourself about your skills because you are framing it as a challenge to others. Keep your ego down. Instead, write that you are excited that you were able to accomplish something and/or had a personal breakthrough.
- Do not identify any female you write about with any kind of personal information. Each girl will have her own special qualities, yet these are details than can be left out for the most part as they do not always add to the report.
- Always use aliases as most people would prefer not to be identified publicly.
Bullet the lessons you've learned.
Do this second to last, right before you ask any questions you have.
- I learned what some of my negative beliefs are. Some of them are...
- Girls open easier than I thought. I was putting too much pressure on myself with my limiting beliefs.
- etc..
Ask questions.
No doubt you will have questions, numbering and placing them at the end of the report makes it easy for others to refer back to them.
- Why did she walk away?
- What else could I have said?
- How can I prevent this from happening in the future?
Closing:
As long as you touch on most or all of these point on your field reports, you will maximize what you, and potentially others get out of them.
All my best,
~S
