Author, keen blogger (since 1998), writing teacher.
Adelaide, South Australia
Joined April 2007
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Angela Booth retweeted
Jeanne d’Arc, a peasant girl, heard voices telling her to save the kingdom of France. Seeing the Dauphin in disguise, she somehow discerned his identity and convinced him to let her command the French army. She then won battle after battle. Mark Twain called her the only seventeen-year-old, of either gender, who had led the armed forces of an entire nation.
Angela Booth retweeted
I'm sharing the lifetime reading list from my high school English teacher. He loved books, thought deeply, and told us that during the War he always had a paperback in his back pocket to escape into.
*not my checkmarks, had to get a copy from a friend after losing mine
Angela Booth retweeted
Cada vez más estudios muestran que escribir a mano mejora la memoria y la comprensión conceptual. The Economist: Tomar apuntes con bolígrafo obliga a sintetizar ideas, mientras que teclear favorece copiar literalmente sin procesar la información. La diferencia no es nostalgia, es cognición. ✍️📚
economist.com/culture/2023/0… m.youtube.com/shorts/MB_G3Fk…
Back in the day, there were books for BOYS. If publishers want to sell more books, publish for boys too. Different interests; different books. See Twain's Tom Sawyer etc.; written for BOYS.
Obviously, this is incorrect. Boys and girls (especially middle grade) have different interests due to their sex-based differences. And there’s nothing wrong with that!
It will be hard to improve literacy rates if boys (or girls) are constantly belittled for their innate interests or desire to relate to main characters, which is especially important for young readers.
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Angela Booth retweeted
Niels made a new cartoon, rejoice everyone, rejoice!!
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If you want to read more about this topic:
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Everything depends on the voice and the point of view. And your characters. Meander if you like, if that's the voice. Develop your characters. Read, but when writing, follow your creativity. Forget "optimization", please. :-)
When I read older books, I'm always struck by how unoptimized they are. Books wandered in their prose, had meandering backstories for side characters, and had strange and illogical plot points. Now, it's like every word in a book has to be razor-focused, hurtling toward the conclusion. There's no room for idle dreaming.
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What is a story?
“In its purest form a story is just three elements: conflict, action, resolution. Someone is faced with a problem (conflict) he must struggle with (action), and he wins or loses (resolution).”
- “Immediate Fiction” by Jerry Cleaver.
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Angela Booth retweeted
Hilaire Belloc explains why you need to read old books:
“There is no habit more dangerous to a man's active intellectual life than that of reading only modern books. The contemporary writer is usually not yet judged by time. He writes under the pressure of fashion and opinion. But the old books have survived. They have been tested. They come to us stamped with the approval of generations. To read them is to breathe a larger air.”
Which old book are you immersed in right now?
Angela Booth retweeted
Porque los seres humanos, sin importar cuántos siglos pasen, somos los mismos y estamos atormentados por las mismas cosas. Por eso es tan importante leer los clásicos, para entender que el mundo no empieza ni acaba con nosotros.
“If you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer … (If) you are so busy keeping one eye on the commercial market … you are not being yourself.”
- “Zen in the Art of Writing” by Ray Bradbury.
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“Put them together any way you wish. WORK· RELAXATION· DON’T THINK, Once separated out. Now, all three together in a process. For if one works, one finally relaxes and stops thinking. True creation occurs then and only then.”
- “Zen in the Art of Writing” by Ray Bradbury.
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“Your best thought comes embedded in chunks of your worst thought … Write a lot. Think “quantity.” Think “word production.” Think of yourself as a word and thought factory.”
From “Accidental Genius”, by Mark Levy.
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Yes. Slop isn't new or innovative. It's determinedly average because that's all it can be. If you're a writer, write YOU. Be confident. Write. Your insights, ideas, and words, matter. Write on. :-)
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