Lisa RiveroThank you to the authors of the forthcoming The Dyslexic Advantage for the Facebook share of Reading Rocket’s recent interview with children’s author extraordinaire, Avi. I first took a look at the interview (and video clip) for his thoughts on dyslexia, but then found myself drawn into the rest of the transcript, some snippets of …
“Life is temptation. It’s all about yielding, resisting, yes, no, now, later, impulsive, reflective, present focus and future focus. Promised virtues fall prey to the passions of the moment.” ~ Philip Zimbardo Are your fictional characters stuck, perhaps all on a single plane, moving at the same pace? Is your memoir missing something that you …
“[N]otice what you noticed. No, go further: tell yourself the audacious thing that because you noticed, it matters.” ~ Linda LaPlante The conversation occurred during those minutes before class when students wait with varying degrees of patience for the teacher—in this case, me—to begin. “I think parts of my brain are missing.” This came from …
I don’t plan to do this often, but today I’m posting the same thing on both of my blogs, because these intriguing resources on procrastination and motivation—two shared by a friend on Facebook (thank you, Rebecca), one I’ve mentioned before, and one golden oldie from 2005—apply so well both to gifted intensity and to writing/writers. …
Could you live without the internet for a week? For a month? That’s the prompt for today’s WordPress Daily Post challenge. Could I? Absolutely. More than ever, I’m grateful that my teaching job precludes being connected, at least during class time (and when I’m not logged on in order to show something online). I don’t …