tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-701894736280253278.post218698097672260503..comments2024-02-17T09:53:06.168+00:00Comments on Notes from the Slushpile: The Great Literacy Debate: What is the Future of Reading?Candy Gourlayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07802791643303335762noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-701894736280253278.post-19388328042300109482008-10-07T21:54:05.360+01:002008-10-07T21:54:05.360+01:00Cor! I taught a year 9 class acouple of years ago ...Cor! I taught a year 9 class acouple of years ago and the scheme of work was creative writing. I allowed some of those kids to 'write' the story of a computer game! I'm just so 'up there...with the thingies...y'know...' Actually it does seem a shame if kids are missing out on curling up with a good book. But then I am an old fart at heart!Jon Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04299901366453310075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-701894736280253278.post-15016435645463890992008-10-08T23:52:26.567+01:002008-10-08T23:52:26.567+01:00you are definitely up there .. if this is the way ...you are definitely up there .. if this is the way things are going, i've got to advance beyond Age of Empires to online fantasy games! but there is no time.Candy Gourlayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08007409312955086752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-701894736280253278.post-80116501119197455132008-10-09T07:01:54.993+01:002008-10-09T07:01:54.993+01:00I don't know. It's not reading though, is...I don't know. It's not reading though, is it? For me, the thing about a good book, and this applied when I was a child, is that you step out of the real world and enter someone else's world. Of course this applied to gaming-style books, but what about slowing the pace? What about reading as a way of learning about another culture, another way of life, another era? These poor kids spent their lives, either on screen or now on paper, hurtling along. For me, that's not reading, it's adrenaline rush.Sue Hyamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00018944465720933242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-701894736280253278.post-10608903163597243992008-10-09T14:59:17.254+01:002008-10-09T14:59:17.254+01:00I posted a link to wordpool this morning about the...I posted a link to wordpool this morning about the same thing - evidently it's very much a question doing the rounds at the moment.<br>I think your point about Story is key - it doesn't have to be a book - as a child I didn't have many books (my parents weren't "bookish") but I had a granny who used to tell me stories - about her life - and it was from that that my own love of story grew.<br>When I write a new manuscript, I'm usually at the same time visualising it as a movie - I can't seem to quite separate the two means of storytelling in my head - and perhaps this what we all need to do - to see our stories in different guises.<br>And I suppose the question we have to ask, as writers, is what's more important, the means or the end.Nicky S (Absolute Vanilla)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04871239587214383387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-701894736280253278.post-28494974112202629582008-10-09T18:00:32.821+01:002008-10-09T18:00:32.821+01:00as jon said earlier, what this demands of us write...as jon said earlier, what this demands of us writers is to be incredibly clever (as opposed to be old farts) ... somehow TRICK the kids into thinking they are playing when they are actually reading!Candy Gourlayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08007409312955086752noreply@blogger.com