This goes out to everybody who thinks they have a book in them. Perhaps you are even more ambitious than that; maybe you think that you could write a whole series, or aspire to make your career one that revolves around writing. Ever since people have been able to read, there have been plenty of …
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Kindergarten teacher has 1 student every year who has never colored, written, or drawn anything with a writing utensil before: ‘They have to be explicitly taught how to apply pressure to write on paper.’
Should kids know how to write their own names before they start kindergarten? It’s no secret that many kids are getting left behind in the education system. When I was a kid, America was all about not leaving kids behind in this exact setting (when I was a kid, I thought that policy was about …
Seguir leyendo Kindergarten teacher has 1 student every year who has never colored, written, or drawn anything with a writing utensil before: ‘They have to be explicitly taught how to apply pressure to write on paper.’
21 Wordy Memes for Literate Writers Struggling With Writer’s Block
Write as much as you can! I’m a writer who doesn’t procrastinate…mostly. When I have a work or school deadline, I cannot procrastinate. The words need to get onto the page one way or another, and there’s a better chance the final product will be good if I do it today than on the day …
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Reader discovers AI prompt in his recently-purchased travel book, realizes the whole book is a fraud: ‘Absolutely worthless’
Would you buy a book that was completely generated by AI? It’s getting tougher and tougher to know what’s generated by AI and what isn’t. Remember a world before all of this? You didn’t have to think about whether or not something was completely fake? I miss that world. Now you have to look at …
Seguir leyendo Reader discovers AI prompt in his recently-purchased travel book, realizes the whole book is a fraud: ‘Absolutely worthless’
Teacher conspires to ‘lose’ 60 student essays because she doesn’t want to grade them: ‘I got through 3 of them before I contemplated dumping them all in the trash.’
Teachers hate grading essays as much as students hate writing them. When I was in school, I remember students pointing out the hypocrisy of essay deadlines because it often took teachers so long to grade said essays. At the time, I thought it took teachers so long to grade the essays because there was only …
Seguir leyendo Teacher conspires to ‘lose’ 60 student essays because she doesn’t want to grade them: ‘I got through 3 of them before I contemplated dumping them all in the trash.’
Employee snoops through and writes in her coworker’s notebook, gets offended when she asks her to stop: ‘She said I was overreacting because it was just a notebook and not anything sensitive.’
In what world would looking at anyone’s private journal be okay? I can’t think of anything more invasive and cruel to do to a teenager than reading their diary. You really shouldn’t be reading anyone’s diary unless you’re trying to figure out the cause of their demise, ala Laura Palmer, or you’re reading diaries that …
Seguir leyendo Employee snoops through and writes in her coworker’s notebook, gets offended when she asks her to stop: ‘She said I was overreacting because it was just a notebook and not anything sensitive.’
Reader discovers the used book he bought online is underlined in pencil: ‘It said it was in good condition. I feel like I’ve been scammed.’
To annotate, or not to annotate? That is the question that millions of readers must ask themselves when they open a brand new copy of a book. Many of us were taught that annotation was the best way to retain and analyze literature in school. There’s no question that taking notes of any kind helps …
Seguir leyendo Reader discovers the used book he bought online is underlined in pencil: ‘It said it was in good condition. I feel like I’ve been scammed.’
14-year-old refuses to delete her fanfiction despite her parents’ insistence that it’ll look bad to future employers: ‘I’m a 40-year-old accountant who reads fanfiction on my phone during my lunch break. Employers don’t care.’
Writing bad fanfiction is a teenage rite of passage. This might be a controversial take, but I don’t think parents should be snooping through everything their kid does on their phone. There is definitely a time and a place for some parental controls on certain websites, but if a parent reads everything their teenager texts …
Seguir leyendo 14-year-old refuses to delete her fanfiction despite her parents’ insistence that it’ll look bad to future employers: ‘I’m a 40-year-old accountant who reads fanfiction on my phone during my lunch break. Employers don’t care.’
16-year-old promises to give her mom 25% of her earnings if she ever became a published author, mom holds her to that promise 6 years later: ‘She threatened to sue me over it if I ever did get published.’
She’s extremely profit-hungry for a book that doesn’t even exist. Some parents make it their life’s mission to do everything they can to support their child, while also taking care of their own retirement so their child doesn’t have to take on the burden of caring for them in old age. Other parents tell their …
Seguir leyendo 16-year-old promises to give her mom 25% of her earnings if she ever became a published author, mom holds her to that promise 6 years later: ‘She threatened to sue me over it if I ever did get published.’
‘Can we do 4?’: High school sophomore students complain to teacher asking them to write 5 complete sentences
It is a question that has been haunting many people who have observed the changes of the past couple of decades: are we getting dumber? Countless individuals have argued that the introduction of smartphones has fried our brains and their attention spans, and the spread of generative AI has only made this problem worse. No …
Seguir leyendo ‘Can we do 4?’: High school sophomore students complain to teacher asking them to write 5 complete sentences