For those who love reading and writing books…
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore won the Oscar for Best Animated Short last night.
Enjoy!
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David M. Schultz is a Professor of Synoptic Meteorology at the Centre for Atmospheric Science, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and the Centre for Crisis Studies and Mitigation, The University of Manchester. He served as Chief Editor for Monthly Weather Review from 2008 to 2022. In 2014 and 2017, he received the University of Manchester Teaching Excellence Award, the only academic to have twice done so. He has published over 190 peer-reviewed journal articles.
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that, it’s horses for ruecsos, isn’t it. Yes, inhaling books is how we first experience them, and it does train your instincts, just as six year olds all learn to read partly by recognising whole words. But we all need conscious craft too, just as we need ways to break an unknown word down into phonics and reassemble it into sense.Which is why I think it goes read, read, read; write, write, write and only then is it wise to go out and find whatever feedback suits you. The more you’ve written, and written with some meta-awareness of your writerly process, the better you’ve got to know your writerly self, and the better you’ll judge feedback and find the right kind for you.