Publishing Standards and Time Travel Writing
This week's Monday writing nuggets feature a cutting edge publishing magazine and a historical writing project at a boys' schol.
Nuggets For You: The New Publishing Standard
The New Publishing Standard is an e-magazine founded by Mark Williams in 2017, which brings you all the latest trends in the publishing industry. If AI doesn’t frighten the daylights out of you, this magazine will tell you more about how it’s shaping the publishing industry.
You’ll get an international view of what’s happening too, with stories about developments for Hollywood writers and what the book market is like in India.
If you want to broaden your worldview on publishing, have a read.
My Own Nugget: Time-Travel Writing In Schools
This week, I’m starting my BLAST Artists in Schools residency at Ferrybank Boys’ National School on the outskirts of Waterford City. The teachers want the boys to create stories with a historical theme.
I’ve had an enjoyable time dusting off my knowledge of the Vikings and of World War One. I’ve created a story template centred on these time periods which I hope will make the history the boys are learning come alive.
Photo Description: This is a World War One service metal, stored in the World War One Gallery at Waterford Museum of Treasures. It’s a bronze medal with engravings on it, and is on the end of a rainbow coloured ribbon. I’ll be using props like this to spark ideas for stories in the boys’ minds.
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Great to hear. I find it so depressing how schools now promote the learning off of sample essays to regurgitate during exams - standard practice it seems unless you are ‘exceptional’ (as I was told) and can be allowed to write your own. This is not English! I was horrified the first time I learned of this practice - back in the early Noughties - and as far as I know primary school children don’t write what we would have called essays at all. I’m all for education moving with the times but not allowing for creative writing (and learning how grammar and sentence structure works in the process) seems like a very backward step to me.