tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post1568707271745511336..comments2024-03-25T09:56:16.164+00:00Comments on An Awfully Big Blog Adventure: A small grey pigeon - John DoughertyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-41662027204144547392015-07-05T15:39:29.641+01:002015-07-05T15:39:29.641+01:00Lovely! Lovely! Catherine Czerkawskahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14554969254207924049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-69513469063742182492015-07-04T15:14:56.953+01:002015-07-04T15:14:56.953+01:00"During my most immediate period of nocturnal..."During my most immediate period of nocturnal rest I was fortunate enough to have a highly visual hypnogogic illusion that gave me the impression that I was in fact revisiting a former structure that I once considered to be my primary residence"<br /><br />oops - my bad...<br /><br />"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again"Dawn McLachlanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16806534007750892638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-87658333277828941712015-07-01T11:32:43.204+01:002015-07-01T11:32:43.204+01:00I think one of the major problems is that teacher ...I think one of the major problems is that teacher aren't taught creative writing in College and also don't read enough (no time I know, but surely while they were at College?) <br /><br />If enough teachers complained about the system and pointed out how silly it was, then perhaps a change might be initiated. Problem is most teachers don't see the present system as wrong. They really believe the 'saids' and the 'exclaimeds' and the 'articulateds' and the fanciful words need to be in a piece of writing to make it 'good'. <br /><br />One has to be grateful for all the teachers who turn their backs on the system. Perhaps some of us wouldn't be writers today if we hadn't had those sort of creative teachers who encouraged us to free spirited writers using big and small words when appropriate. <br />Dianne Hofmeyrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222157214605257030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-17876423025575000682015-06-30T10:26:29.373+01:002015-06-30T10:26:29.373+01:00Catherine - I love your comment/ The difference b...Catherine - I love your comment/ The difference between what to write for the teacher and how to do it properly! I realise that I learned that for myself, while still at school. I used to let the teacher's advice wash over me while thinking, 'Well if it's good enough for {fill in name of writer I was enjoying at the time} it's good enough for me.'Susan Pricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07738737493756183909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-26299814462335236462015-06-30T09:34:42.597+01:002015-06-30T09:34:42.597+01:00Sigh - you are so right!
Sigh - you are so right!<br />catdownunderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06959328192182156574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-80736958569417350702015-06-29T19:18:08.410+01:002015-06-29T19:18:08.410+01:00I love that small grey pigeon with no pretensions ...I love that small grey pigeon with no pretensions to be anything other than what he is. Write his story, John!<br />Great post because it is so true.Pippa Goodharthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17709422048047155208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-70032008509354697322015-06-29T13:23:47.116+01:002015-06-29T13:23:47.116+01:00Couldn't agree more. Some years ago, while my ...Couldn't agree more. Some years ago, while my son was still at school, I spent a happy and productive session teaching him how - as long as the reader understood who was speaking - he didn't need to use he said/she said, or the many variations on those words, all the time. How you could even indicate who was speaking and how they were saying things by what they were actually doing. He grasped it pretty quickly and produced what I thought was a good piece of writing. Back it came, a few days later, with 'corrections' such as uttered /exclaimed /articulated /bellowed etc, in red pen all over it. That's when he learned to distinguish between what to write for the teacher, and how to do it properly. Catherine Czerkawskahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14554969254207924049noreply@blogger.com