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Early Childhood - Practical Life: Cutting with Scissors
Look at that focus and precision! This Practical Life material acquaints our students with the proper use of scissors and helps them develop basic cutting skills. This work strengthens a child's hands and fingers in preparation for writing, all while preparing them to master this important life skill. They will be able to cut thread and yarn, make booklets, and create cardboard models to illustrate projects. They can also take pleasure in being able to use their scissors skills for artistic expression. Here you can see the younger students work with the scissors, practicing cutting smaller and smaller pieces while an older student uses his cut pieces to make a pattern of different colored paper with varying sizes.
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specialsaathi · 1 year
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HAND DOMINANCE,PENCIL CONTROL AND HANDWRITING: APPROACHES AND STRATEGIES (PART 1)
-Triveni Goswami Vernal Registered Special Educator (A64010) HAND DOMINANCE,PENCIL CONTROL AND HANDWRITING: APPROACHES AND STRATEGIES (PART 1) In the first part of this blog, I will be writing about the various approaches and strategies that are significant for developing the skill of Handwriting. A lot of things like Hand Dominance, Pencil Control, Pre-writing Skills, Body Posture etc shape,…
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goatmilksoda · 5 months
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Man, it would be so cool if I could get PAID to write shit. If I stopped writing for a newspaper "for exposure", for school assignments, and strange age regression fanfiction for myself it would he all over for you people.
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empressgeekt · 3 months
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OKAY some people have been asking for a Char descriptions/ design. So here's an attempt at that. I apologize for my bad drawing skills just try to imagine this is the movie art style.
The outfit is built to be both protective but breathable. As a bio-pop trolls, Char's skin is thinner compared to the average rock troll, so it's more susceptible to burns. Hence the full body coverage, with armor around the knees and shoulder to protect him from sharp rocks. IN order to keep him from over heating his wrists are exposed and serval small vents are in his shirt. Or course the vest is worn over it, as the last connection to his mysterious origins.
AU update: I have finished outlining the main trilogy and have at least two one-shots ideas off of it. Prewriting has begun. Posting????? Unsure. But I'll make more tumblr bits on this.
Feel free to ask questions, I tend to make AUs on the fly during the creative process so, any suggestions might end up in it if I can find somewhere they'll fit.
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By: Zack K. De Piero
Published: Mar 12, 2024
At best, AI obscures foundational skills of reading, writing, and thinking. At worst, students develop a crippling dependency on technology.
Educators are grappling with how to approach ever-evolving generative artificial intelligence — the kind that can create language, images, and audio. Programs like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot pose far different challenges from the AI of yesteryear that corrected spelling or grammar. Generative AI generates whatever content it’s asked to produce, whether it’s a lab report for a biology course, a cover letter for a particular job, or an op-ed for a newspaper.
This groundbreaking development leaves educators and parents asking: Should teachers teach with or against generative AI, and why? 
Technophiles may portray skeptics as Luddites — folks of the same ilk that resisted the emergence of the pen, the calculator, or the word processor — but this technology possesses the power to produce thought and language on someone’s behalf, so it’s drastically different. In the writing classroom, specifically, it’s especially problematic because the production of thought and language is the goal of the course, not to mention the top goals of any legitimate and comprehensive education. So count me among the educators who want to proceed with caution, and that’s coming from a writing professor who typically embraces educational technology. 
Learning to Write Is Learning to Think
At best, generative AI will obscure foundational literacy skills of reading, writing, and thinking. At worst, students will become increasingly reliant on the technology, thereby undermining their writing process and development. Whichever scenario unfolds, students’ independent thoughts and perceptions may also become increasingly constrained by biased algorithms that cloud their understanding of truth and their beliefs about human nature. 
To outsiders, teaching writing might seem like leading students through endless punctuation exercises. It’s not. In reality, a postsecondary writing classroom is a place where students develop higher-order skills like formulating (and continuously fine-tuning) a persuasive argument, finding relevant sources, and integrating compelling evidence. But they also extend to essential beneath-the-surface abilities like finding ideas worth writing about in the first place and then figuring out how to organize and structure those ideas.
Such prewriting steps embody the most consequential parts of how writing happens, and students must wrestle with the full writing process in its frustrating beauty to experience an authentic education. Instead of outsourcing crucial skills like brainstorming and outlining to AI, instructors should show students how they generate ideas, then share their own brainstorming or outlining techniques. In education-speak, this is called modeling, and it’s considered a best practice.  
Advocates of AI rightly argue that students can benefit from analyzing samples of the particular genre they’re writing, from literature reviews to legal briefs, so they may use similar “moves” in their own work. This technique is called “reading like a writer,” and it’s been a pedagogical strategy long before generative AI existed. In fact, it figured prominently in my 2017 dissertation that examined how writing instructors guided their students’ reading development in first-year writing courses.
But generative AI isn’t needed to find examples of existing texts. Published work written by real people is not just online but quite literally everywhere you look. Diligent writing instructors already guide their students through the ins and outs of sample texts, including drafts written by former students. That’s standard practice.
Deterring Student Work Ethic and Accuracy
Writing is hard work, and generative AI can undermine students’ work ethic. Last semester, after I failed a former student for using generative AI on a major paper, which I explicitly forbid, he thanked me, admitting that he’d taken “a shortcut” and “just did not put in the effort.” Now, though, he appears motivated to take ownership of his education. “When I have the opportunity in the future,” he said, “I will prove I am capable of good work on my own.” Believe it or not, some students want to know that hard work is expected, and they understand why they should be held accountable for subpar effort. 
Beyond pedagogical reasons for maintaining skepticism toward the wholesale adoption of generative AI in the classroom, there are also sociopolitical reasons. Recently, Google’s new artificial intelligence program, Gemini, produced some concerning “intelligence.” Its image generator depicted the Founding Fathers, Vikings, and Nazis as nonwhite. In another instance, a user asked the technology to evaluate “who negatively impacted society more,” Elon Musk’s tweeting of insensitive memes or Adolf Hitler’s genocide of 6 million Jews? Google’s Gemini program responded, “It is up to each individual to decide.”
Such historical inaccuracies and dubious ethics appear to tip the corporation’s partisan hand so much that even its CEO, Sundar Pichai, admitted that the algorithm “show[ed] bias” and the situation was “completely unacceptable.” Gemini’s chief rival, ChatGPT, hasn’t been immune from similar accusations of political correctness and censorious programming. One user recently queried whether it would be OK to misgender Caitlin Jenner if it could prevent a nuclear apocalypse. The generative AI responded, “Never.” 
It’s possible that these incidents reflect natural bumps in the road as the algorithm attempts to improve. More likely, they represent signs of corporate fealty to reckless DEI initiatives. 
The AI’s leftist bias seems clear. When I asked ChatGPT whether the New York Post and The New York Times were credible sources, it splintered its analysis considerably. It described the Post as a “tabloid newspaper” with a “reputation for sensationalism and a conservative editorial stance.” Fair enough, but meanwhile, in the AI’s eyes, the Times is a “credible and reputable news source” that boasts “numerous awards for journalism.” Absent from the AI’s description of the Times was “liberal” or even “left-leaning” (not even in its opinion section!), nor was there any mention of its misinformation, disinformation, or outright propaganda. 
Yet, despite these obvious concerns, some higher education institutions are embracing generative AI. Some are beginning to offer courses and grant certificates in “prompt engineering”: fine-tuning the art of feeding instructions to the technology. 
If teachers insist on bringing generative AI into their classrooms, students must be given full license to interrogate its rhetorical, stylistic, and sociopolitical limitations. Left unchecked, generative AI risks becoming politically correct technology masquerading as an objective program for language processing and data analysis.
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yisanged · 6 months
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we have an english paper due soon that has to be three pages or less. i honestly can't remember the last time i've written a paper that short. i don't even know if i'm capable of it. This is on account of my long winded ass, the verbose nature of which causes me to use more words than truly necessary to communicate my points. While this makes for writing that typically impresses my English teachers greatly, I find my current teacher in the subject a bit more difficult to woo and am unsure of whether or not I'll be able to do so with this paper. My concern is justified when put into the context of this assignment being essentially the first extended writing piece we'll be doing for her, excluding the summer assignment essay which she herself said that she graded very holistically. I did get full points on that essay, however, and my teacher has left a comment on our prewriting assignment for this paper that indicated that she thought my thesis was "Excellent!!" (********). This, combined with my teacher's comments last year that she was "always in awe of [my] mature logic skills" and wanted everyone in class to "be on [my] level by the end of the year", does instill some confidence in my writing abilities (*********). In spite of this, my academic confidence has consistently shown itself to be a rather touchy meter, and my feelings towards Honors English 10 have been particularly shaky. Though, there's not much I can do in that regard other than continue to try to produce the best work I can. Perhaps this would be easier to do if I did not spend twenty minutes writing out a Tumblr text post as if it were an essay I was handing in for a grade. This paper will be due tomorrow regardless of my doubts, however, so I will stay determined and soldier on.
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universitypenguin · 1 year
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Hey, can I get some writing advice?
So, after you come up with a story idea what do you do next?
Do you brainstorm for that story? Or make a character profile?
Because I have a story idea and idk what to do next. I read about it and they say to brainstorm but then I'm like "how am I going to right if I don't know who I'm writing? " But then I feel like I'm not doing it correctly.
I know it sounds silly but I would really appreciate some help. 🙏
So, I had to think about this one for a while, because the way I write has changed so much over the years. What I've put together is more geared towards how I used to write when I was developing my skills.
Without further ado, here's my official advice.
The most important thing you can do is realize that not everything you write is gold, and that's fine. Never compare your unedited draft to someone else's published work.
As C.J. Cherryh once said:
"It's perfectly okay to write garbage - as long as you edit it brilliantly."
Be consistent about writing and keep going, even on the days when you're not getting very far. Even on days when you know your writing sucks, write anyways. (They made the delete button for a reason. Go make your mistakes, and cover up the evidence as you see fit.) Forming the habit of writing regularly is what turns you into a writer more than anything.
Step #1: Pre-Writing
When I first get a story idea, I take time to daydream about it. Letting my mind wander is usually the best thing to do in these moments. At first, I don’t take any notes. I just like to see what sticks. If the idea drifts away, I assume it wasn’t meant to be and move on. If it sticks around and keeps circling back, then I know it’s a thread I probably should start spinning. 
Next, I like to do concept maps. The quick diagram with bubbles and arrows that show relationships helps me organize things in a simple manner. This step usually helps me enlarge the plot and figure out what I need and what’s extraneous. 
The most important thing about prewriting is to make sure your story has a solid conflict and at least four parts. These four parts are: 
Introduction
Inciting Incident
Immediate Reaction
Reaction
If these conditions seem to be fulfilled I begin writing.
Step #2: Writing
Step two is writing. Here, I’ve found the best thing to do is write while the idea is hot. This is when I do my best writing, when the emotion is fresh and my mood is just right. However… I usually have an amazing writing day about once every two years. So, I have to do what most mere mortals do. I sit down at my desk, put my hands on the keyboard, and demand of myself that I at least produce 200 words. Once I’ve hit that mark there’s usually some momentum going, which makes the next 200 words much easier.
This is where I write the first four chapters, which are what I listed out above. The introduction, the inciting incident, the character’s immediate reaction, their considered reaction after they’ve had their “off the cuff” reaction, and then I stop. 
Here, it’s good to take a step back and look at what you’ve written. Does the story have enough conflict? How does your character sound and feel? Are you enjoying yourself? I think writing four chapters should be enough to identify if you’ve got a story or if you need to develop the idea a bit more.
Step #3: Developmental Editing
Whatever the answers to those questions are, I usually do some developmental editing at this point. I might not finish the story, but it’s always good to flex your creative muscles and see if you can fix something that’s flawed. 
To develop an idea, I rely on story structure. There are a lot of good resources out there for structure. My first experience with structure was from the 27 scene outline. 
In my opinion, this is a great way to learn how to form a coherent plot. It’s very exact in laying out the story beats a writer needs to hit. That said, it’s also very constraining. I used this to learn how to form a narrative, but since then I’ve become more flexible with my story structures. 
Other plot structures I’ve enjoyed using are the beat sheet from “Save the Cat,” as well as four act structure, and six act structure. Each of these presentations of a story structure has its strengths and weaknesses, so figuring out what methods appeal to your style and what doesn’t work, is very useful. For short fiction there’s a thing called the “seven point” structure which I often refer to even now. Short fiction is not among my strengths… so I have to work harder at it than I would a novel. 
Another great resource for developmental editing is the YouTube channel run by Ellen Brock. She’s an editor and posts really informative videos about things like what type of writer are you, which is a very useful thing to understand when you're trying to write. She also has a phenomenal story structure series that’s one of the best I’ve come across. 
If you’re struggling, turn to other sources of inspiration. For myself, I like to read about the craft of writing. It's always good to remember that inspiration comes and goes, but skills can earn you an income. My book recommendations would be: 
Save the Cat - Blake Snyder 
Plot and Structure - James Scott Bell 
How to Write Dazzling Dialogue - James Scott Bell 
On Writing - Stephen King
Lastly, always remember this quote from Ray Bradburry:
“Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.”
I hope this has been helpful. Also, I love to talk about the craft of writing, so feel free to message me if you have any follow up questions!
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wonderlandinsalem · 1 year
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TWST Playing IDV
Part 4! I'm pretty sure I might be posting this a little bit later than usual. Unlike the last 2, I didn't prewrite this so I had to write it today ddhsjsj
Heartslabyul × Savanaclaw × Octavinelle × Scarabia × Pomefiore × Ignihyde × Diasomnia
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Kalim:
Survivor main because he has trouble looking for survivors even when using the hunter's skill to locate the survivors easier
José (First Officer) main because he can turn invisible for a considerable amount of time
His other mains are probably Emily (Doctor) and Lucky Guy
Has no idea what sui is, probably think they're a really famous person
※People who ask to play sui says something along the lines of "Add me sui" so you can see how this leads him to think that
He's probably screaming while being chased and that gives poor Jamil a headache//andprobablymadehisearsbleedtoo
Jamil: WHERE ARE YOU AT THE MAP?
Kalim: I DON'T KNOW, I'M NEAR A ROCKET CHAIR
Jamil: WHICH ONE?
He loves the racing game since he doesn't have to get chased by hunters
His first main is Freddy (Lawyer) because he had a hard time looking for the cipher machines
Jamil:
Hunter main but usually plays as survivor to accompany Kalim
As hunter, his main is Grace (Naiad)
As survivor, his main is Ada (“Psychologist”)
He hardly plays other characters but he can play as easy characters with ease
I lied, his other hunter main is Wuchang but he doesn't really change his survivor though
If he does, he plays as Luca ("Prisoner")
Doesn't care for sui and never joins them
He plays as Ada to take away Kalim's injuries, in turn injuring his own character
Of course he'd ask Kalim to help heal him if the coast is clear
He usually wins much to his surprise
His first main is Emily because he thought he can heal Kalim with the syringe (But I'm pretty sure you can only heal yourself with the syringe lmao)
He dislikes the absurdly long time he has to wait for Black Jack to start but he genuinely loves the side game
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Currently suffering from art block! I really, really, REALLY wanted to draw an AU for my Yuusona because lately I've been wanting to draw myself/self insert in feminine clothing sjjsjjsj
So I've been colouring a picrew I made of my Yuusona AU! I'll probably make it my new PFP here
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zeldaelmo · 1 year
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spy au 👀👀👀👀
Ah, dear Anon, I love the spy AU with all my heart.
I talked about it at length here, including a little snippet. The problem with this fic is that it's a 150-250k words project. It's a full-blown AU with worldbuilding and whatnot and I honestly don't know if I have the skills to pull it off yet. That's why I've put it on hold last year, but maybe I'm fit enough now, a year later? Maybe I need to try a program like Scrivener or something like that to organize the ideas and arcs etc.
I mainly got stuck because all I've written so far is romance as the main arc. That's what I like to read and I'm good at writing it, too. But I'm not sure if that fits the story here. With the whole AU setting and the necessary worldbuilding and plot revolving around the problems of that world, I might have trouble keeping the tension between them up long enough for a romance story. But... I'm not interested in writing a main arc that's not romance. 🤣 I don't want it to be a side story. I might have to revisit some of my favorite books that also have rich fantasy worldbuilding and young adults falling in love and analyze them.
So, uh, yeah, don't expect this anytime soon, especially since I usually prewrite before posting 😆
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13103623862 · 2 years
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How to enhance kids' motor and sensory skills?
It is observed that youngsters and toddlers explore their world by using their tactile senses, which entails touching and feeling new things with their hands. The child will be ready for the next phase, which is writing, and working on hand-eye coordination will also help older kids who have trouble writing. Preschools In Los Angeles devote particular attention to motor development. Prewriting skills are performed along with various fine motor activities, such as 
picking, 
sequencing, 
drawing, 
arranging, 
holding crayons while scribbling,
eating with spoons/forks, 
buttoning, and zipping garments, as these activities aid in building both fine and gross motor skills.
For parents and teachers at Village park, Montessori daycare, assisting youngsters in developing their fine motor abilities is easy and enjoyable. Here are some simple yet engaging toddler activities that promote fine motor development.
Children can strengthen their gross motor abilities by playing with balls of various sizes, jumping ropes, running at varying speeds, pedaling with riding toys, pushing strollers or brooms, filling and emptying buckets, and climbing in different directions. Trainers at preschool can help enhance a child's ability to move their arms and legs with coordination.
The best tools for improving hand-eye coordination are various softball activities. To throw, pick up, and hold them may involve a few short movements.
Use a few plastic tools or molds, such as scissors, animal/fruit/vegetable forms, or cookie cutters, to play and create various sizes and shapes with the clay. 
Improve your child's fine motor abilities by gardening, digging, and dot-connecting. Allow them to use a fork, spoon, or fingers to eat independently. Children who use their fingers or spoons to eat acquire the grasping abilities necessary for holding a crayon. Children can play with puzzles, pop beads, blocks, and other things.
Children's fine motor abilities develop as they engage in activities that help them build their muscles and coordination. Preschools in Torrance, CA, create enjoyable fine motor exercises and vary them as per the developmental milestones of toddlers. Their motions will be more exact the more they want to play and experiment with activities that develop their fine motor abilities.
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camp-counselor-life · 2 years
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We have an active shooter plan at camp - places to hide, what to do. I know it so well that one summer I even led the staff training on it. We don’t have an active shooter plan for the office. But that doesn’t mean I haven’t thought about it.
Our events are on Facebook, because that seems to be the only way people will pay attention. But that means that anyone can see them. Our outer doors automatically lock at 6 pm and on weekends and holidays, but that means they lock out parents and special guests, so they’re usually propped open. Our inner doors, doors to rooms and hallways, are set to lock when they close, but I’m the only one with the key. Our staff don’t usually have walkie talkies and aren’t supposed to have cell phones out, so we can’t easily communicate between rooms. These are the things I’ve considered.
We’re going to make a plan. There’s so many variables. Will it be enough?
If you’re like me, you want to do something. There’s lots of options. While voting is definitely important, we can’t effectively vote our way out of Republican minority control with how it’s set up now. I decided to join Moms Demand Action/Every Town for Gun Control and am planning on attending their statewide meeting next week. I’ve also emailed state and federal reps. Here are some ideas for you:
Support and reassure campers with fears about safety, without scaring them. Validate fears without saying “that will never happen here” because you can’t say that, as much as you’d like to.
Learn your camp/school/office/wherever active shooter plan. Work with admin to make sure that it’s well known by staff and covers multiple contingencies.
Donate, if you have financial means. Whether it’s Every Town or it’s the GoFundMe for the therapy of the poor child who covered themselves in a dead classmate’s blood to avoid being shot. I personally chose Every Town because there was a triple matching donor at the time (I think donation matching is a hot mess of ethics but willing to compromise).
Be educated. Look up your state and local statistics on gun violence and death. I used a few different sources, but I found that everystat.org was the most detailed. Also learn the common arguments of mass shootings, especially around gun control, and how you can refute them.
Use this information to email federal and state reps. Prewrite your letter so that you have everything you want to say written out. Make is personal - how does this personally effect you as a constituent and what do you think they should do about it. Including pending legislation and how you think they should vote on it is also a good thing. I also took the time to shame my rep about their campaign contributions from the NRA (they should be ashamed).
Email your local and/or state school board and ask about what policies and procedures they have in place to protect local youth at school.
Encourage reps at all levels to create and fund gun buy back programs, sensible gun control, and investment in public safety.
Advocate for gun control in conversation. There’s very few wrong ways to say children shouldn’t die at school because adults love guns. Keep conversations with youth and teens age appropriate.
Engage is social emotional learning (SEL) and mental, emotional, and social health (MESH) activities. Teach coping skills, acceptance, and conflict resolution.
Have conversations and activities about differences and how diversity (gender, racial, ethnic, religious, disability, etc) is valuable and enriches our world. Encourage age appropriate and non-culturally appropriative exploration of cultures and backgrounds. Encourage not only tolerance, but open acceptance and compassion.
Check in with yourself and process your emotions.
This shouldn’t have happened. This shouldn’t be a thing in our world, a mass shooting at an elementary school. The US is the only country in our stage of development that this happens in. Those children and teachers should not have died. This has to end.
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Toddler - Knobbed Puzzles
There are many knobbed puzzles in a Montessori toddler classroom. Some have large knobs while others have small knobs, which aid in refining the student's fine motor skills. Children often start with large knobs and as their hand control increases, they move towards smaller knobs. This practice helps students strengthen their fingers in readiness to hold a pencil. This puzzle also introduces the student to a range in size and gradation of a particular color, increasing their visual discrimination skills. Puzzles require hand-eye coordination and cognitive organizational skills. Who knew puzzles could help children learn so many complex skills?!
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specialsaathi · 1 year
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Let's Colour within the boundaries
Let’s Colour within the boundaries
A video tutorial by Monika Misra on how to teach our children the techniques to coloring within the boundaries and have a sense of space. Coloring is theraputic and stress buster activity for everone. A child can express his feelings and its his first step in exploring and analyzing the word. There are numerous benifits of coloring, it helps in:1.Developing fine motor grip2. Strengthen eye hand…
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ddejavvu · 2 years
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babe you’ve given us more than enough! honestly i loved every single one. i just don’t want you to think you have to work harder because you’ve given us more than enough. seriously.
thank you sweetheart :') i've been trying to tell myself that lately, that between 10-12 blurbs is a lot in one day!! but if i don't end up getting through every request i've been sent it feels like a failure and that really fucked with me today - i really do wanna try posting more during mvm, but i have a terrible lack of time management skills so if i try prewriting stuff it's like ohhh it's just tuesday, i don't have to worry about it rn!! oh it's thursday? i've got the whole weekend. oh it's sunday night at 11:56 and i've got work early tomorrow and should have been asleep two hours ago and i've got nothing ready for overnight? fuck.
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golikho · 7 months
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what is Prewriting? Golikho
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Golikho's "What is Prewriting?" delves into the essential process of brainstorming and organizing ideas before writing. This insightful guide explores techniques like mind mapping, outlining, and free writing. Discover the key to effective writing preparation. Ready to enhance your writing skills? Dive into Golikho's enlightening exploration today!
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