→ what needs fixing

→ what to try next, right here, in this sentence

That’s the difference between correcting a piece of writing … 
and building a writer.

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always in the process of revising, whether we mean to or not. And then we have to contend, too, with the forces who want to influence that process.

Reading makes us see what we’ve stopped noticing.

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what arrives, but what takes hold.

Reading makes us see what we’ve stopped noticing.

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this week's theme.

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what works.
Not just what’s missing.
But what needs to change. And how.

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Woolf’s genius lies in showing that what matters is not simply what happens, but how it is experienced: how meaning is made in the act of observing.

Reading makes us see what we’ve stopped noticing.

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often oblivious to what we're doing.

Reading makes us see what we’ve stopped noticing.

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Blood will have blood ... This week’s #ShakespeareSunday is theme-free. So what’s on my mind? Hands.

A theme-free #ShakespeareSunday weekend sees Shakespeare almost blowing his ten-syllable ‘budget’ on just two glorious words!

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It is effective.

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The best thinking? It's ORGANISED thinking. I tried something slightly different in a tutorial today. Instead of writing a set of notes, I recorded the entire session as a mind map while we talked.

Essays begin with ideas, connections, and structure. One you've got the last one, the others become a lot easier.

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“Every monster has a mother.”

This Mother’s Day, let’s upset that rosy apple-cart a bit. You wouldn't expect anything else from me by now ...

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Before Shakespeare, there was art. Like many children, I once wanted to be an astronaut. When that ambition quietly evaporated, I decided I would become a painter instead.

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Spent this morning in Swansea, giving a talk on King Lear for A Level students.

Teachers interested in interactive outreach and online Shakespeare sessions available for GCSE and A Level can email darren_f.j@hotmail.co.uk

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A lovely outreach session in Evesham on Much Ado About Nothing today.

Teachers interested in interactive outreach and online Shakespeare sessions available for GCSE and A Level can email darren_f.j@hotmail.co.uk

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Are you not entertained? This week’s theme: Spring Reading Shakespeare, spring is rarely daffodils or lambs, though living in rural North Wales, these very much are Spring. I saw my first bumblebee yesterday, and it was genui...

Maximus Decimus Meridius. But could they be related? Spring and spectacle interrogated this week ...

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Enjoyed giving a talk on Shakespeare’s 'Macbeth' for GCSE students today.

Teachers interested in interactive outreach and online Shakespeare sessions available for GCSE and A Level can email darren_f.j@hotmail.co.uk

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my #Shakespeare read-through arrived at the beginning of ‘The Merchant of Venice’.

This week’s Way-Back-Wednesday reflects how the play’s opening left a bad taste in my mouth about the ‘heroes’ …

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Engaged with some brilliant questions from Sixth Formers studying Othello today.

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Just finished recording a lecture on 'Hamlet'.

Looking to bring Shakespeare to life in your classroom?

Interactive outreach and online Shakespeare sessions available for GCSE and A Level.

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