Creative writing, why bother?: Anthony Lishak at TEDxManchester
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- Опубліковано 19 чер 2014
- Antony Lishak is a children's author, creative writing expert and ex primary school teacher. He has worked in education for over 30 years and now spends most of his time leading writers' workshops in schools. He has visited well over 2000 schools inspiring children to see themselves as authors. He will be talking about the importance of creative writing for developing children's confidence to "find their own voice" and how its gradual removal from the primary curriculum is denying children the opportunity to really express themselves.
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its so sad that this is happening. education isn't about learning and finding your way and what you wanna do. its all about passing the next exam, you leave school and you know how to pass exams and nothing else.
Basically, I wrote my own bible. It's not just about stringing videos to create a story. It's my story. Thousands of pages. Kinda like videos.
Very true. Loved this video.
Thank you reminding me about the difference between facts and fiction. It's a message I often emphasise after Toastmasters speeches. The speakers often concentrate on delivering facts and advice instead of telling a story.
totally amazing..
I'm a (so-far) unsuccessful novelist and have worked as an assistant in a primary school for six years or so.
I found the comment about children not seeing adults write very interesting, I make a point every couple of weeks to sit next to the children and have a go at the writing task they are undertaking. I've found it very difficult to write anything that sounds good to my ears whilst following the proscribed methods the curriculum currently employ. They force the writer to lard the work with out of place adjectives, flabby adverbs and 'impressive' connectives that do not fit comfortably in fiction. Who, but a civil servant, would ever use the word 'moreover'?
I was wondering if they were any practical tips and fudges to be able to fulfil the dull, quota-led style of creative writing that the curriculum prescribes without losing the creativity... the best I can come up with is to parody it.
Wow i think i understand you and it sounds like a very interesting problem. You've literally expanded my horizon.
Wow! ! nice presentation and very inspiring.
Loved it! "Children need to realize that they are authors, too." I really enjoyed the sentences about chocolate cake that the elementary students were able to come up with!
For the life of me I have never been able to get my mind around the phrase, "creative writing". Apparently it's descriptive of a certain kind of writing. "Creative".
And it distinguishes itself from all other forms of writing which, if we accept the implication, are "non-creative".
Maybe a form of "non-creative" writing is journalism which in theory, is totally objective. Except when journalists make stuff up and that's most of the time. The result is "creative journalism". I still have to work this out.
He's voice sounds like Tyrion Lannister :))
The "maths" problem is actually very old. In America there was in the past quite a discussion about how literature should be taught at universities. After the English literature hat made its place in the the curriculum instead of Latin/Greek, it was first a mere corpus for syntactic/morphological analysis. Only later the idea of examining the thoughts came by, and it was not accepted by all.
There's a million shelved books that never made it to print. iBooks that are great but we'll never get to read. Ideas that span the last 100 years, put out by would be writers. I've read a many of them and I'm amazed at the originality and the clever plots. Why are they not in print? Ask the publishers who control the market! They choose what makes it to the bookstores and therefore decide what we read. Many believe there's a lot of secret collusion going on. Conspiracy theories? 'Hey, self publishing is a dead end street. A book has to go mainstream to make money. Why do some mainstream authors have 30-100 books out there in the stores and strugglers have none? Look to the narrow minded men in control and the failure culture we are living in...Conspiracy? nah, I don't think so.
DL Southwell the problem is that a lot of writers don’t know how to market, and yeah, if you want to publish something experimental then you will have to do it yourself
Believe me, it is an awesome video, inspired me to open my own channel
I know he's not a designer, but I'm hesitant to trust anyone who uses the papyrus font...
Atleast, he's not using comic sans ! LMAO
PAPURUS likes sphagetti
And I'm faaar from done.
So, writing is speaking offline.😊
Disturbing as it is riveting.
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Yep, why bother; decided I won't- done
pointless