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FOOD FOR THOUGHT (AND THE PEN--OR KEYBOARD)
Article posted November 4, 2005 at 07:33 PM GMT0 •
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I have to admit, I'm beginning to like this a great deal despite myself, my own wariness of technology and the ways that I personally romanticize the pen and ink.
Many of you have posted some favourite quotes; below are some of mine, first recorded in the pages of my own journal. I'd love to see one of the class bloggers reflect on or respond to one of them. They all happen to involve writing.
"Good writing means rewriting, and good writing is a matter of redoing--repetition without cease is obligatory, until the moves become second nature. I have never thought of myself as a 'born' writer--any more than I think of myself as a 'natural' athlete, or even a good one. What I am is a good rewriter; I never get anything right the first time--I know how to revise, and revise."
--John Irving (best-selling author of Cider House Rules, The World According to Garp, Owen Meany etc.)
"Our story engrossed brain seems to believe that we exist because we tell the story of our existence."
--Renee Fuller
"Creation is inherently relational--there cannot be creation without interconnection."
--Charles Johnston
"Human beings invent language and then use language to reinvent the world." --Tyler Volk
"First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it...We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand."
C. Day Lewis
"My life in wrestling was one-eighth talent and seven-eighths discipline. I believe that my life as a writer consists of one-eighths talent and seven-eighths discipline, too." --John Irving
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Article posted November 4, 2005 at 07:33 PM GMT0 •
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Assumptions (or Rules)
Article posted November 1, 2005 at 12:52 AM GMT0 •
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The following are a few notes to keep in mind as you continue to blog. You may even look at them as ground "rules" or, as you know I'd rather say, because I assume so much, ASSUMPTIONS:
1) Despite the need to "copyright" your work by your own name, it's important that, as a protective measure, you never use your full name in any blog postings--if you do, I will edit the blogs accordingly, but I'd appreciate it if you'd save me the time! As you all know, I need it! :)
2) Do not post any identifiable pictures of yourself.
3) All "related links" must be school appropriate. You know what that means.
4) Although I will be in contact with your parents about this class project, share it with them when you get the chance--you don't need to show them your own blog, but tell them about the project and let them know they can contact me at the school if they have any questions.
5) Write and save your blogs in word first, then cut and past them into your blog, or you'll run into frustrations like SC. When you request publishing for your blog, make sure you click the boxes "SAVE" and "REQUEST PUBLISHING."
6)Make your blogs relevant to our endeavors in this class.
7)Use your writer's toolbox in your blogs--there's no excuse for small i's and no periods! :)
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Article posted November 1, 2005 at 12:52 AM GMT0 •
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