Anonymous
- A tip on smashing out those dastardly long quotes.
Begin the quote a little slower than usual. If you keep 100% accuracy for the first couple of lines, you can then speed up and afford to make a couple of mistakes without your WPM dropping too much. If you start off with a speed penalty because you messed up the first word, you will find it much harder to bring the score up to your usual speed.
Lemony Snicket
- The Beatrice Letters
I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you every Tuesday. I will love you no matter where you go and who you see, I will love you if you don't marry me. I will love you if you marry someone else - and I will love you if you never marry at all, and spend your years wishing you had married me after all. That is how I will love you even as the world goes on its wicked way.
E. Price
- Laziness Does Not Exist
People do not choose to fail or disappoint. No one wants to feel incapable, apathetic, or ineffective. If you look at a person's action (or inaction) and see only laziness, you are missing key details. There is always an explanation. There are always barriers. Just because you can't see them, or don't view them as legitimate, doesn't mean they're not there. Look harder.
Sandra Cisnero
- A House of My Own
Not a flat. Not an apartment in back. Not a man's house. Not a daddy's. A house all my own. With my porch and my pillow, my pretty purple petunias. My books and my stories. My two shoes waiting beside the bed. Nobody to shake a stick at. Nobody's garbage to pick up after. Only a house quiet as snow, a space for myself to go, clean as paper before the poem.
William Goldman
- Adventures in the Screen Trade
It's possible to conceive narrative as an endless piece of string. The writer makes two snips, one for the beginning, one at the end, and the placement of those snips may be as important as anything a writer does.
Susanna Kearsley
It's too easy, you see, to get trapped in the past. The past is very seductive. People always talk about the mists of time, you know, but really it's the present that's in a mist, uncertain. The past is quite clear and warm and comforting. That's why people often get stuck there.
weareteachers.com
- It’s Time to Stop Wearing Teacher Exhaustion as a Badge of Honour
Let's stop romanticising hustle and resilience. If our students see us working constantly or complaining about how tired we are all the time, they will do the same. We don't want our students to think their productivity is tied to their self-worth. So instead, let's model and share how we take care of ourselves and how we've come to learn about our productivity and the ways that we work best.
