Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative with Sir Ken Robinson When you research creativity in education, it is impossible not to come across Ken Robinson’s provocative work. His book, Out of Our Minds, published in 2001, revised in 2011, is still fresh and powerful. In part a scathing critique of the factory model […]
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I have been less active on this blog lately because I’m starting a new podcasting project. I’m going to be podcasting my novel, “Marmalade, Cat Detective,” at my new Marmalade Cat Detective blog. I also have a long-term plan for writing a book on how to write and produce children’s plays and videos. I’ve had
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I had my 3 showings of my video, The Fiendish Plot of Doctor Cyclone yesterday. People seemed to enjoy it and it was a pleasure to see the cast get up and get some applause after all their hard work. Here’s the blurb: The Fiendish Plot of Doctor Cyclone, a lunar comedy orbiting your funny
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40009 / 65000 words. 62% done! To celebrate the rising word count, and to encourage myself to work a little faster, I decided to give myself a widget. I’m still a little disappointed with my daily word output this week but sometimes quality can’t be rushed. I’m edging up on a huge turning point in
I met Lesley Livingston, author of Wondrous Strange, at the AD Astra SF/ Fantasy conference in Toronto. She launched the book there and took place in a couple of interesting panel discussions. My favorite of these was a discussion of fight choreography and fencing. Livingston is a principal performer and founding member of the Tempest
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This week has been writing Nirvana with my son in camp but yesterday all that feel-good creativity ran up against crunch time. In the morning, I racked up a decent word count over 1 000 words but I had to dedicate the rest of the day and most of the night to editing. The absolute
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I had a good writing day today, completing about 11 pages by 3:40. That brings my total to date up to 33 281 words or about 133 pages! I’ve passed the halfway mark. Happy reading (or writing)
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You have to check out the latin motto generator . I like the way it makes me look sooo smart to title this blog in latin. This motto is designed motivate. It means: in determination, victory. Today, after a pre-lunch start of 1053 words (5 pages), I’ve been getting distracted by surfing for writing blogs
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I’m a big fan of I should Be Writing (ISBW), Mur Lafferty’s podcast and blog of the same name. The “Mighty Mur,” as she calls herself, has just released the first in a series of PDF episodes outlining her discoveries as a “wanna-be fiction-writer” who is now a published author. It’s been very encouraging to
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I just finished reading Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger. It is one of my favorite types of novel, a literary page-turner set in India with a unique voice and point-of-view. I recommend it highly and can see why it won the Man Booker Prize for 2008. Currently I’m reading the Watchmen graphic novel which is