To get more young people interested in science, GE produced a series of comics. This one from 1953 taught children about electricity.
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(Source: thedancingwriter)
- Create a new map of the world.
What I mean by this is, find a blank world map. Now add your own countries and write about how the world came to be like that. If you want to work outside this world, draw your own map - there are endless possibilities and it’s a great visual.- Make up a secret…
(Source: underthemetaphoricalrug)
1. Literary fiction is a genre that pretends it is not a genre.
2. You have to be good. And keep getting better. For every writer taken on, another is dropped. A paradox: you have to rise to stay level.
3. Ninety per cent of people in the publishing industry are twenty-six years old.
Tips on storytelling from some of the current masters.
"The first sentence in a story has to be a bear trap. Fully inhabit your narrator. Weak verbs are buried, like land mines that won’t go off.” Paul West was talking fiction (in “Master Class: Scenes From a Fiction Workshop”), but he’s right about all types of writing."
— Reposting a Facebook entry by my friend and colleague Tim Anderson.
