Interview with Apirana Taylor - Part Four: 'your ears are often your best editor'

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为年轻读者而写作：打开宝箱

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Commonwealth Education Trust

为年轻读者而写作：打开宝箱

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This course is for curious students and aspiring authors with a passion for writing for young readers. Participate in a dynamic online community of writers as you experiment with your own writing and develop your voice. This course will guide you with a combination of video lectures, online readings, peer reviews, and guest appearances from world-renowned children’s authors. As you work through the writing exercises, you will give and receive feedback from your peers and gain tools and techniques for improving your writing. During this course you will identify stories that matter to you, explore cultural significance and boundaries, and shape your identity as a writer; become familiar with standard elements of narrative (character, setting, plot, theme, language, dialogue, point of view); reflect on your own work and practice essential self-editing skills; see the different ways in which words and art interact, and the possibilities of longer narrative forms; come away with practical insights into publishing options; and create a plan for pursuing your enthusiasm for writing. By the end of the course, you will have ten to twelve extracts of writing that you can develop into a portfolio. Join a dynamic community of many voices from around the world. Find inspiration in your own voice, heart, and place so that you can tell the stories for young readers you’ve always wanted to tell.

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Your Writing Identity

Good children’s writing commonly has a strong sense of identity. This module will give you a chance to think about and practice putting yourself into your writing. We will start by looking at how you can establish effective writing habits and how you can use your own experiences and culture to enrich your writing. We will also discuss ways that you can add depth to your writing by drawing on myths and legends, and by experimenting with different viewpoints.

Interview with Apirana Taylor - Part One: 'I carried exercise books with me everywhere I went'9:29

Interview with Apirana Taylor - Part Two: 'I'm leaving something behind for future generations'6:02

Interview with Apirana Taylor - Part Three: 'one word is worth a thousand pictures'7:25

Interview with Apirana Taylor - Part Four: 'your ears are often your best editor'3:53

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David Hill
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Maria Gill
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Alex Alexandrou
Dr

Apirana, is there anything else you wanted to say about what you would do with young

writers in a classroom situation?

>> I'd get them to read their work out loud.

And when I formed the Apirana Taylor School of Writers,

I went round talking to older writers who I respected.

And they all had little tips to give me.

One writer said, it's [INAUDIBLE] apart,

he said, always read your work out loud when you've finished it.

And I do that, and I think it's a very good thing to do.

Your poem or your story, read it out loud.

The reason is this.

Language was not originally written down.

When we picked up language, we spoke it and

it goes into our brain through our ears.

I think there's something joining our brain to our ears to take in the language.

When we go to school we learn to silent read and those words and

the language goes into our brain through our eyes.

But the eyes are made for seeing, not for handling language.

So when you read you work out loud, your ears are often your best editor.

>> One of the other modules is going to talk about revising and editing, and

it's very interesting to hear you emphasize this idea of reading out loud.

You obviously regard it as very important.

>> Yes, and it can be fun when you're with a group of young writers.

They read these stories and their poems to each other, and they enjoy them.

So when they're reading them they're giving, and

when they're listening they're giving and learning.

Its a good thing.

>> You really feel privileged to be a part of it, don't you?

>> Yes.

>> Apirana, I know theres one technique you use with your

writing classes which involves getting them to write very fast.

Can you tell us a little about this?

>> Yes, I get them to do that for a reason.

Writers will often say get it all down.

I give them a minute or two to think about what they're going to write,

to get the general plan, and I get them to write very fast.

It's like I try to say get it all down.

And when you're writing fast, you do get it all down and it's a bit like vomiting.

You get all the peas and the spuds and every now and

then you get the good bits in there, you know?

And you see, the problem is often people sit there,

they chew their pens and they say, I can't think of anything to write about.

Because what they're doing is they're saying, I'll write about John.

No, no, I won't do that.

Or I'll write about Hector.

No, no, no.

I'll write about this.

No, no, no, I won't do that.

And they've said no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, and

this is why they've got nothing on the page.

They have to work out the idea and

then be prepared to follow it, to see where that lane takes them and say yes, so

that you're opening up your mind and letting things go there.

>> And this fast writing means they stop saying no to themselves, they get

everything down, and then they can start looking at the shape, maybe, it makes.

>> Yeah, and often the best stuff is there because your mind's chucking it up before

the other part of your mind can start chopping it out.

So your creative mind is just throwing it up for you.

>> The last thing I'd like to ask you, Api, is if you were to say to

other writers what is the most wonderful thing about being a writer,

you've already touched on this slightly.

But what would you say, as far as you're concerned, is the most splendid,

the most marvelous thing about being a writer?

>> Well, I think for me it's the pleasure of words, but just telling a good story.

>> And the story, after all, is what this course is very much concerned with,

whether it's some poems or whether it's some prose.

Apirana Taylor, thank you very much indeed.

We've had the pleasure of talking to Apirana Taylor, storyteller, poet,

novelist, short story writer.

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