#23 School Tools (1 April 2006)

Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 06:02:38 -0800

From: "bronax

Subject: School Tools

Making things up, without any lesson plans, I have come up with a day saving list of things to get one through the day....

General Rules of Life  (Cribbed from a Pre School rule)

                    1. Don't hurt yourself.

                    2. Don't hurt another person.

                    3. Don't hurt the equipment.

General Rules for starting the day:

1.  Know where you are that day. 

 What applies, what doesn't. How the schedule differs from the day before.

   2. Universal Daily Lesson Plan

Begin today with where you stopped yesterday. Proceed forward from that.

We worked on this yesterday. I gave a test in pm about points 1 and 2.

I am having the students describe in their own words what happens when we use the add sign (things increase), or--

the subtraction sign (things decreasing, getting less or smaller)

multiplication, getting larger quickly by adding groups of numbers, division, which answers the question, how many of this group (divisor), reside in that group?

        

Kids can just parrot back the math ideas, without knowing them as

concepts. Thus for them forever arthmetic is in books, not real life.

Stillness promotes acceptance of change, and learning.

#22 First Olive Out of the Bottle (3 March 2008)

To: John

From: Bronax

Subject: Olive out of the bottle

Ok, first olive is loose and out of the top of the bottle, freeing up the extraction of the rest of them.

Now that you have shown your work to me, you can be on your way to showing it to everyone, i.e. finishing it and getting it published.

You now have made a statement about one thing you might do after you retire from Austin U., become a novelist or general writer.

Just begin the habit of writing several hundred words a day in the beginning. Save everything, so you can not feel so violated when you edit and cut most out ( the cut stuff remains saved for use for something else).

George

To: bronax 

From: John 

Subject: George: thanks for!--  Olive Ploy

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3/3/08

Hi George,

The olive's out of the bottle. I like that.

Gave me hope at a late hour and so I'll head off to bed with more cheerful feelings in my head.

Thanks for your ushering me out of the Writer's Closet!

I'll be in touch. It's late.

I feel much love for you now. Much love and appreciation for your generous spirit!

John

#21 Editor On Board (5 March 2008)

Editor On Board

To: John

From: Bronaz

Subject: Editor On Board

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3/5/08

Watch first Star Wars movie. Black screen, then suddenly two space ships slide across it, one chasing the other. Audience inhales breaths audibly, and doesn't finally exhale until movie over and credits begin to show.

Ditto for Albert Camus's The Stranger..... " Yesterday, Mother died. "  Now that begins it for a male. Nurturing and existential rescue, over.

         

You want to write drama, begin with some important fact, no icing. Your wittiy references and asides are the icing to this story.

 Way to compare three things seperately but side by side, is to open three windows, and make them thin and next to one another. Allows easy comparison side by side, sentence by sentence. 

Put your novel on CD or DVD computer disk, and on its hard drive also, so you have at least two copies. Make one paper copy also, and put it in a safe place, safe from theft, flood, fire, accident. Save your work.

Like Robert Ludlum, you can retire from your present day job, and do just your night job, writing.

Robert, a former Broadway play producer, wrote all the Jason Bourne adventure novels, with the title conceit,  The.....blah....blah

     

The Borne Ultimatum, The Bourne Identity, The Scarlotti Inheritance, etc. about 18 of these so far, I think.,

Kudos to you.  Get yourself on a schedule, like exercising, do a little every day. Write every day. If you run dry, write about dryness or boredom or failure or fatigue etc. Things will soon pick up.

George  B