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Three ways to write and read
The Kindle arrived yesterday. Though the picture of John Steinbeck may tempt me to read fiction so that all I’ve read is this – the first five chapters. The A5 Daler Rowney sketchbook is 160gm...
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We can’t help but think in metaphors; it’s what makes us human
It could be the subject of of PhD Thesis. Metaphor is the essence of learning, of knowledge transfer, of transmitting ideas, of ideas themselves, of innovation and creativity. Reading Sfard and...
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A little learning. Evelyn Waugh (1964)
HOLIDAY READING A little learning. Evelyn Waugh (1964) Not an e-book, but as soon as I wanted to take notes or share sentences I wish it had been. (His less famous, though more successful popular...
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Virginia Woolf. A Room of One’s Own. Emancipation and writing fiction
A Room of One’s Own – Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf’s ‘A Room of One’s Own.’ Why in order to write fiction in 1920s a woman required £500 per annum and a room of their own. ‘A Room of One’s Own’ became...
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The pain of writing and how pain feeds the writing too
24/10/2004 The pain of writing ‘Perhaps this is the strongest pleasure known to me. It is the rapture I get when in writing I seem to be discovering what belongs to what, making a scene come right,...
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What the Scandinavians know about children’s literature
With Mariella Fostrup I liked the comment from Professor Maria Nikolajeva when she quoted Leonard Helsing as saying ‘all pedagogical art is bad art, but all good art is pedagogical’. So if you write a...
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Creativity is improvisation … Edmund de Waal on pots, netsuke, writing and...
Fig 1. Pots, Writing, Music and on being a Smarty Pants Listen to it for yourself. What intrigued me where his thoughts on the creative process. Edmund de Waal Desert Island Discs...
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When did you last stumble upon such words of encouragement?
Is Fig.1. Words of encouragement Isn’t this all that we need? Someone who believes? (On the inside of a folder of ’creative writing’ from my teens – short stories, a novel, a TV screenplay, poems and...
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The Distant Summer – Sarah Patterson (1976)
Fig.1. Sarah Patterson – her first novel with the promise of many more to come – 1976 The poignant story of a girl who loves two WWII flyers, written by the daughter of suspense writer Jack Higgins...
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The communismization of knowledge and Open Educational Resources
Fig.1. I like spirals. Thirty years ago this was just a photo. For me it is an expression of what learning looks like. (I think this is St.John’s College, Boat House – or is it Balliol?) At the base...
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Story is character
Decades of starting a piece of fiction and as many decades often getting into a mess some 70,000 words in I feel I am eating humble pie by ‘doing a course’. You do and can learn by doing, but it helps...
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Completed ‘Start Writing Fiction’ with The Open University on FutureLearn
From E-Learning V Fig.1 Start Writing Fiction I’ve been blown away, shaken up, put back together, slapped on the behind, smacked on the back and learnt a huge amount. All I need to do now is spend...
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How to read a mind
How to Read a Mind: The University of Nottingham[Two Weeks] Fig.1. The image I’ve used for a decade to represent my blogging under the pseudonym ‘mind bursts’. 79% Complete Four activities remaining...
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On rewriting fiction – again
Fig.1. One box from the garage: Five/Six project to work on here :( Thank you SWF Fall 14. [Start Writing Fiction. An Open University ‘Massive Open Online Course’ or MOOC that run from October to...
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