{"id":859,"date":"2021-12-01T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vividolearning.com\/?p=859"},"modified":"2023-01-25T17:07:12","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T17:07:12","slug":"what-i-want-students-to-know-about-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vividolearning.com\/what-i-want-students-to-know-about-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"What I want students to know about writing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
You are the only person who can say what you have to say. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
No one else can capture your ideas. They might have similar ones, but they won\u2019t express them the way you will because language is messy and imperfect and infinitely flexible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It takes courage to put your ideas into the world — to make them stand still for anyone to see. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
To be a writer, you must be brave enough to do it anyway, to give your ideas a voice, to work and rework them until you express them just the right way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Your writing won\u2019t come out perfectly every time. And that\u2019s OK. No one\u2019s writing does. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It takes patience and perseverance and practice to write. Mostly it takes bravery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Be brave! Just write. You’re the only person who can say what you have to say. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You are the only person who can say what you have to say.\u00a0No one else can capture your ideas. They might have similar ones, but they won\u2019t…","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n