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Oct. 28th, 2007 12:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nnyHar har har I fail at life. Seriously, I need to do something about this lack of drinking thing because my kidneys ache. I didn't know kidneys could ache. Last week I drank... very little that wasn't tea or alcohol. I just don't like water that much, especially not in this city; I should look into persuasion to drink through the means of squash or something, right? I forget, is all. I don't get thirsty and only remember I haven't had anything to drink when I get a headache.
Working busily away, writing about the process of writing and what a creative piece of writing has taught me about writing from a teacher's perspective. Struggling slightly because my brain hurts so I'm just talking about a description of a computer room I wrote about... er... three years ago? Damn. I'm getting old. It's weird, though; I don't think about writing enough. The posts that I have found in various places are a little too involved for secondary school students, too, so I can't leech your genius. (But why can't we harness that power, Stephen?)
What actually annoys me the most is that my experience of school and writing was that there was a perception of some students having talent and some not, without much in the way of instruction as to how to improve. I mean, I was one of the ones with talent so I pretty much accepted that I would get good marks for pieces of writing and thought about it no further than that. Too much with the fixed intelligence perception, and not enough Vygotsky and Zones of Proximal Development and thinking about where a pupil could be rather than where they are. It annoys me because I have come out of my schooling with the impression that you don't learn to write, that you merely can or can't, and that there's not much in the way of improvement. As a result my meta skills are absolutely dreadful and I write instinctively without consideration of important things like themes, character development, all that - I genuinely do try so hard these days to learn more about these things and read all I can about them, but god do I suck at the application. This is why I am not a particularly good writer. And I want to be, but I'm seriously lax at improving.
I probably make no sense. My head hurts way too much to read through all this again, so let me know if I'm talking crap and I'll go get another glass of water.
Working busily away, writing about the process of writing and what a creative piece of writing has taught me about writing from a teacher's perspective. Struggling slightly because my brain hurts so I'm just talking about a description of a computer room I wrote about... er... three years ago? Damn. I'm getting old. It's weird, though; I don't think about writing enough. The posts that I have found in various places are a little too involved for secondary school students, too, so I can't leech your genius. (But why can't we harness that power, Stephen?)
What actually annoys me the most is that my experience of school and writing was that there was a perception of some students having talent and some not, without much in the way of instruction as to how to improve. I mean, I was one of the ones with talent so I pretty much accepted that I would get good marks for pieces of writing and thought about it no further than that. Too much with the fixed intelligence perception, and not enough Vygotsky and Zones of Proximal Development and thinking about where a pupil could be rather than where they are. It annoys me because I have come out of my schooling with the impression that you don't learn to write, that you merely can or can't, and that there's not much in the way of improvement. As a result my meta skills are absolutely dreadful and I write instinctively without consideration of important things like themes, character development, all that - I genuinely do try so hard these days to learn more about these things and read all I can about them, but god do I suck at the application. This is why I am not a particularly good writer. And I want to be, but I'm seriously lax at improving.
I probably make no sense. My head hurts way too much to read through all this again, so let me know if I'm talking crap and I'll go get another glass of water.
