https://padlet.com/peela/b0njehrfpvg5g2o1 Made with a stroke of good luck en-us 2022-01-24 19:58:49 UTC 2025-10-07 11:04:34 UTC hello@padlet.com peela https://padlet.com/peela/b0njehrfpvg5g2o1/wish/2009707449 Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar ]]> 2022-01-24 20:00:47 UTC https://padlet.com/peela/b0njehrfpvg5g2o1/wish/2009707449 peela https://padlet.com/peela/b0njehrfpvg5g2o1/wish/2009707851 This is precisely when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence.  We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.]]> 2022-01-24 20:01:04 UTC https://padlet.com/peela/b0njehrfpvg5g2o1/wish/2009707851 peela https://padlet.com/peela/b0njehrfpvg5g2o1/wish/2009708682 There’s no such thing as the voiceless. There are only the deliberately silenced or the preferably unheard ]]> 2022-01-24 20:01:29 UTC https://padlet.com/peela/b0njehrfpvg5g2o1/wish/2009708682 peela https://padlet.com/peela/b0njehrfpvg5g2o1/wish/2009709734 At the beginning of elementary school children really want to write.  Unfortunately, during their school years, the will to write in many cases decreases and even disappears, and the child’s discovery of writing as a way of expressing and communicating is often a promise the subsequent writing instruction cannot maintain ]]> 2022-01-24 20:02:05 UTC https://padlet.com/peela/b0njehrfpvg5g2o1/wish/2009709734 peela https://padlet.com/peela/b0njehrfpvg5g2o1/wish/2009710218 The idea of writing is backwards. That’s why it causes so much trouble. Instead of a two-step transaction of meaning-into-language, think of writing as an organic, developmental process in which you start writing at the very beginning, before you know your meaning at all—and encourage your words gradually to change and evolve. Only at the end will you know what you want to say or the words you want to say it with ]]> 2022-01-24 20:02:22 UTC https://padlet.com/peela/b0njehrfpvg5g2o1/wish/2009710218 peela https://padlet.com/peela/b0njehrfpvg5g2o1/wish/2009710726 Writing has never been accorded the cultural respect or the support that reading has enjoyed, in part because through reading, society could control its citizens, whereas through writing, citizens might exercise their own control.]]> 2022-01-24 20:02:39 UTC https://padlet.com/peela/b0njehrfpvg5g2o1/wish/2009710726 peela https://padlet.com/peela/b0njehrfpvg5g2o1/wish/2009711409 Very young children are the best writers in the world—except for the writing part of being a writer. We grown-ups do not have to teach young children to cherish the little stuff of their lives. We do not have to remind them to cup their hands around the bits of their lives and declare them treasures. We don’t have to teach children that they can collect strings of wonderful words or that they can linger to wonder to to question.  What we do need is to teach children that their wonderings and questions and curiosity are part of what it means to write well ]]> 2022-01-24 20:02:57 UTC https://padlet.com/peela/b0njehrfpvg5g2o1/wish/2009711409 peela https://padlet.com/peela/b0njehrfpvg5g2o1/wish/2009711974 When teachers immerse students in reading and studying the kinds of writing they want them to do…they teach students to use a habit of mind that experienced writers engage in all the time…Students learn to look at texts the way a mechanic looks at cars or a musician looks at music ]]> 2022-01-24 20:03:13 UTC https://padlet.com/peela/b0njehrfpvg5g2o1/wish/2009711974 peela https://padlet.com/peela/b0njehrfpvg5g2o1/wish/2009712651 Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously…Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them ]]> 2022-01-24 20:03:33 UTC https://padlet.com/peela/b0njehrfpvg5g2o1/wish/2009712651 peela https://padlet.com/peela/b0njehrfpvg5g2o1/wish/2009713278 You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time.  The only difference between writers and everyone else is that we notice when we’re doing it. ]]> 2022-01-24 20:03:55 UTC https://padlet.com/peela/b0njehrfpvg5g2o1/wish/2009713278 peela https://padlet.com/peela/b0njehrfpvg5g2o1/wish/2009713848 People who don’t worry at least a little about semi-colons aren’t likely to become writers. ]]> 2022-01-24 20:04:17 UTC https://padlet.com/peela/b0njehrfpvg5g2o1/wish/2009713848 smithl311 https://padlet.com/peela/b0njehrfpvg5g2o1/wish/2009946384 And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.]]> 2022-01-24 23:03:01 UTC https://padlet.com/peela/b0njehrfpvg5g2o1/wish/2009946384