Just finished reading Anne Lamott's book 'bird by bird' for the third time since I first read it back in college for an 'Advanced Composition' course. Anne wrote this book as if teaching her course and it reads as if she is teaching ideas for writing that novel or even just short little pieces poems to short stories. Writing is a lonely profession she says, but it is in how you see yourself as a writer one that just wants to write or one that sees only money for publication of their work. To be a writer one must want to write and be able to put aside some things such as a few chores that could wait for a while to sit down and write whatever. Anne says that using note cards and little pocket notebooks come in handy for various kinds of writing notes along with finding a writing community that could help you when feeling stuck. These are only two things but there are many more ideas to get from this book to make you write. Writers must be readers.
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Mark Graham
I am a person who really likes to read and write and to share what I learned with all my education. My page will mainly be book reviews and critiques of old and new books that I have read and will read. There will also be other bits, too.
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Third Grade
So, what about third grade? This is the year that we really started with the new math so to speak. We are now entering multiplication from the threes through the twelves, fractions that include mixed and improper. There is a new subject in social studies known as history which is mainly the colonies and a little of the American revolution, but really only a taste. It was also the first year that we as students had our first achievement tests to see how we were progressing. My first third grade teacher was named Mrs. Bellstrom who for reason it seemed did not seem to care to much about me, but she became a mother and was replaced by Mrs. Donley who did like me and she liked the students to help her with little classroom chores to improve responsibility for we were no longer little ones, but growing up.
By Mark Graham16 days ago in Critique
Doctor Who: Fans Not Happy.
Doctor Who is either something you like or not. If you don't like it then you will never really understand the stories. If you like it in sci-fi terms its been the best thing since sliced bread (although some Trekkies might disagree). The Doctor with two hearts is a time-space travelling alien. His race is humanoid and their home world is the planet Gallifrey. The Time Lords the Doctor's people, are masters of space and time, hence their name. The Doctor though when it comes to his people has always been a bit of a maverick and loner. Much, to the displeasure of his people. His greatest enemy known as 'The Master' is also a renegade Time Lord who as opposed to the Doctor goes around the universe causing nothing but mayhem. Two of the Doctor's greatest enemies are the Cybermen and the Daleks.
By Nicholas Bishop4 days ago in Critique
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Loved this! Writers must be readers...YES!!!!
Thank you for the recommendation of Anne Lamott's book "Bird by Bird."
"Writers must be readers" True. We shouldn't just read the works that closely resembles ours, or the genre, we need to analyze them and learn what made these books so successful :). I'll have to check out Anne's book. Thanks for sharing!