Just thought this was worth reposting 🙂 (Not that this is *at all* relevant to me the last month, HA) Read more:Here, Alive, Still Swimming#MadeItMonday: Block PrintingHow To Theme: Chapter Twelve – Why Stories? Empathy
People Don’t Go From 0 – 60 Read More »
Whoa, I’m, like, so shocked: new study ‘reveals’ that growing up with a large* home library results in significantly improved literacy, numeracy, and digital communication skills! 😱😱 No way!! 📚📚📚 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/…/growing-surrounded-books…/… * “Average” = 80 books in the house, large = ‘more than that’, with numbers over 350 not having any further discernible impact. (Curious:
Whoa No Way, Books Are Good For Kids! Read More »
See yesterday’s post for Reasons 1 through 3. REASON FOUR: SOCIAL/POWER STRUCTURES In all of this, there may be some interesting things going on with our background psychology. Some monkey scientists (as in scientists who study monkeys, not, you know, unusually inquiring and intellectual monkeys) have suggested that when monkeys groom each other, it’s not
Five Reasons Why Fiction Is Critically Important In Human Culture (pt 2) Read More »
One of my friends got tangled in an argument on Twitter last week about why fiction even matters in the first place. Conveniently, I actually addressed that in one of my recent non-fiction books, so I thought I’d repost here tagged accordingly. This is in two parts – part two will post tomorrow. Storytelling
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Welcome to #MadeItMonday, where I post something I’ve made in the previous week, and where you can join in and post something you made too! The rules are easy: post a pic somewhere of something you’ve made in the last week (ish; let’s say in the last month as the hard-and-fast) and tag it. Sit
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A darling friend let me talk through like ALL my current writing projects to her via email this week, which, if you want to make a writer person happy, THIS IS THE WAY TO GO ABOUT IT, just saying :’D Anyway, as part of that, I had to pull this song out to explain something,
White Winter Hymnal Read More »
Just casually dropping by to introduce you to some people… #SekritNovel #CurrentlyWriting #WIP I guess you can have a deleted bit, too… 😀 He eyed us both, weighing something up. “What if I could give you conclusive proof that it wasn’t me,” he said at last. Carly snorted. “Then I’d say that’s something that
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Sticking to my commitment here of getting back to week-daily blogging. Ermagersh. Today has been a slog of marking, marking, and just for a change, some more marking. But the lovely twinny one has been keeping me sane: we did a voice-only Skype chat to keep each other company, and she set 10-minutely timers. I
Things and Elephants and Stuff and Apparently Another Cover Reveal Because Why Not? Read More »
It’s taking me a bit to catch up from the craziness of this term, but I’m getting there. I have a couple more major things that need doing in the next two weeks (before I go to Vegas, OMG I AM GOING TO VEGAS IN LIKE JUST OVER A WEEK, ARGH!!!!) but once that’s done,
I’m Alive, I Promise (With ALL The Cover Reveals!) Read More »
So many deadlines. I survived the first round of parent-teacher nights, though, and got all my senior marking done on time, so that’s something. Also, one of the exciting new projects that’s been in the works all year is finally starting to make its public appearance (slowly). I’ll post more about this tomorrow or next
