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Angela Maria De Nobrega Freitas BSc Hons., Social Sciences, Open University DipGeog., Open University - MLit., Literature, Open University MPhil and Playwriting Studies, Birmingham University, studied ⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙ My Website. Wordcraft 42. This Website is a writing Website. I refer you to my Introductory Page ...Writing, {Wordcraft 42} Often, I talk about writing - obviously I write about experiences, situations that have importuned upon me, which I have felt it appropriate to address. If we just return to the beginning and the first page I wrote giving readers advice about the writing format where I illustrated some ideas to get readers started into writing. Those principles through which I explained some of the processes involved in the writing medium are pertinent and conclusive. You have to start somewhere and if you are writing to be a writer, a person who expresses their views through writing then those steps that I broached with you are a way to start. Of course you may be a person with a lot to say about everything, or most things in life, in that case .... it's a case of organising your thoughts, in order to do that you need to go up a level, you need to apply a theoretic criteria to your thoughts - you can do this by including a few simple steps in your repertoire of learning criteria, for instance, by simply selecting a good book to read, please ensure when making your selection that the book you choose to read is not the type of book to distract you from your commitment and remit which is simply to read what is written and to understand the story and formulate an opinion that you can discuss afterwards about what you have learned and read about from the book you have recently acquired, or borrowed or purchased for that purpose, the purpose of reading. (I must add at this point, that you ensure you understand my clear advice which is to read appropriate content and material from reading implements that enhance your perception of the world around you through the experiences you have through reading educated text, I trust my readers are at an advanced stage of the writing process, what i mean by that is, that you are able to engage with your subject and its processes, it would help if you have studied for a degree or other higher education qualification, this way you will be in a position, educationally to understand what i am saying to you, here, in my Website, Wordcraft 42, if I ever meet any of my readers I would expect a thourough knowledge of the reading matter of the subjects i may encourage you to read and acquire a knowledge of, bom, estamos a comprender one another), to continue, by this I mean a book that will incurr your interest and keep you engaged in the process of reading, learning the details by realising all the content that is presented to you through the pages of a well written book, (also, I may add here that should you meet people, always be open to a positive application of thought about those you meet and may speak with, it is often said that we should not judge a book by its cover, i also believe we should thoroughly judge a book by its cover, by this I mean we take our naive thinking and apply it discretionarily, also let us say because obviously those bon mots may or may not be the exception to the rules because of course there are those instances whereby you meet people you instinctively like or you meet people you instinctively don't like and for very good reasons, people we meet suddenly we require to take in small doses, Investigate but not judge, or you may judge, but in stages, if you are an educated person you do not immediately write people off, what we must do is allow our subjects to declare themselves to us, through behaviour and manner and habbits and all sorts of other give-aways that may incur questions in our minds about such people, their motives, they may carry themselves in such ways as to make it immediately obvious to a perceptive mind what they're about in an instant, we realise immediately if they are up to no good, or they may declare themselves in the opposite way, again, its always best to allow your subjects to emerge from their personal story and that's the way it is) you may have questions in your mind about certain people you meet and you are absolutely right in being cautious, life and people are one or the most difficult subjects my readers and myself too will ever encounter during our lifetimes, and we absolutely must ensure those we don't trust don't take us for a ride, so I would advise my readers to not only exercise caution but ensure too you do not become involved with such cautionary tales, unless you come across them inadvertently in the pages of a book and there too you need to be selective so that when you are reading you feel safe in the knowledge that what you read is not the kind of obverse propaganda to throw you from the task you are committed to, and so it is with people, be careful) .... So there are a variety of criteria to observe with the writing process, reading good insightful books, also difficult books, your mind will unravel in consciousness or sub-consciousness when sleeping or relaxing or just doing whatever you do that is of a clean capacity, straight-laced, correct, understand ....you require a personality and character which has its own signature and perceptive memory, through everything you do and accomplish, if your life is free of obstacles which would otherwise stop you from being who you are which would make it difficult but not impossible for your mind to unravel just about anything you can think of, however, it is best that you are a good straight-forward intelligent person and value your intelligence your mind is so clear of that which is excessive it will without any preamble accommodate everything that may be difficult or may seem difficult to grasp by doing the job for you, it will unravel matter that will automatically adhere or convert to your brain cells to help your mind be selective in its criteria for intelligent and perceptive analysis in almost any field of expertise you may care to mention. So, I can't emphasise enough the importance of reading - its very important you stretch your mind and away from environments that may be lacking in most of the better qualities of human endeavour that are not endeavours in that case but are a quantitative compound of manipulative, controlling and disassociative patterns of behaviour that conclusively add to the criminal mind, let us cite, right here, in my Website, Wordcraft 42, expert analysis of people and the way they think. So, its very important to read and to observe. To stretch your thinking by reading organised text - a broadsheet newspaper. - the back pages - the political comentaries, theatre reviews, obituaries, all of the content there and some of the more pertinent news of the day which you will find on the front pages, again, look at a complicated article, by an extremely thorough writer in any part of the paper, and read the column from beginnig to end, don't practice reading one or two bits here and there to only correlate the gist of the story, or half the article, you will quickly loose the thread of what you are reading and your memory cannot properly retain incomplete information, that is not the way your mind works, if you practice poor habits, you will be your poor habits, understood ....your mind will not be able to associate half bits of information, it will disassociate itself from you and remain suspended, a quantity apart, do not take up bad habits with reference to reading or anything else you may do, you will simply emerge as a sum of your parts rather than the whole of your parts, you can only cohere your thinking if you follow the realm of the article and the way the writer takes you on that journey, that's why there is a certain order, conformities to be followed in everything you may do in life, we are organised in certain ways to understsnd and hear and see coherently, there are no exceptions to those rules, there is always a beginning, a middle and an end to everything conclusive that you read, that goes for mostly everything in life, people, books, experiences , situations from beginning through middle to end. Compre-endem ... however, a book or an article that is excessively verbose is not necessarily an appropriate book or column to read, it may be too advanced for you, you may not have acquired the language and comprehension essential for you to understand exactly what is being said, for instance, if you happen upon Ulysses, by James Joyce ......{Ullysses is a novel by Irish Writer, James Joyce. It was first serialised in parts in the American journal, The Little Review from March 1918 to December, 1920, and then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach in February, 1922 in Paris - □reference, Google□}. you will be in the company of verbosity ad-infinitum - perhaps you could look at Dickens, Charles Dickens, it is British Victorian literature at its best, - if you find Dickens a little heavy, well, that's the nature of Victorian literature - I would in that case recommend you go straight across the spectrum and read something modern, but also illustrative of the writing process, perhaps something along the lines of Bridget Jones diary, {Bridget Jones diary, author, Helen Fielding - it is also a film, screenwriters, Helen Fielding, Andrew Davis and Richard Curtis}, it is internal dialogue in thinking as the characters are drawn out, that is the story environment, I have to own here not to have read the book, however I did catch the film when it was shown on television, it was on itv2, I watched it because it had been spoken about, with Renee Zelwegger, and a host of other actors, mainly British acting fraternity, i'm not exactly drawn to those types of texts, or films, but you may be and it will at least encourage you to read something by at least someone who can discuss expertly the fathoms of her particular experiences, London life, at that particular time, its one of those books i may read in time, in a few years as a way of seeing or analysing a historical insight into the period of those times, of a certain kind of temperament or age, the way modern girls set about or lived their lives once they have gained independence and into the world of work alongside men of the age and their experiences. You may judge or you may just be a passive interloper in other people's lives, its reading matter and it may be appropriate to you and your particular experiences., your life stories. The reason I don't need to read such stories is because my reading choices are entrenched in post-modern literature, American and British and Victorian literature. - I hardly ever look at anything of our age and times and you too can make those choices, but it starts early, I've been reading books and girls' own illustrations, cartoons of the period since i was a small girl, since I was three years of age and always wholesome literature, always, so think about that, so I hardly read anything of our age and times and that's why if you have made those specific choices it is important you keep up with a literary life in the twenty first century and specifically of our times by reading a very good broadsheet newspaper, you can keep up that way, when you can, you have to sit for a specific amount of time, hours, and dedicate your attention to reading the newspaper - the Guardian fulfills most criteria - week-day and week-end - the week-end or Saturday paper, which has a literary review which is interesting, you will there be able to read reviews of books being published currently, the writers are very good reviewers, and on Sundays there is their sister paper, the Observer. So here I am providing you with good alternatives for your reading choices and after a little while, combined with a thorough practical involvement and engagement with the writing process, you will start to emerge as a very good reader, able to engage with what is being written and a very good writer, but you have to be dedicated to writing well and to speaking well too, that's also important in helping you to understand life and people and importantly to allow you to organise your thoughts succinctly as you speak, this becomes an automatic process after much time doing exactly everything I have discussed here, in this particular analyses at the writing process apart from reading choices that are not necessarily part of my repertoire. You will in time emerge as a very good writer with something very important to say, opinions, ideas, experiences, thoughts, its all good material for the writing process for you to correlate from your point of view. Please note i have over the years read books on history and historical events, biographies, plays, books by foreign writers in translation, modern and period, also literature essential in O'Level, A'Level and MA Literature at University, and a quantity of reading courses material based on the Social Sciences, almost every modern subject you can think of in the study of a Degree BSc Honours Degree. You need to work to be able to articulate your thinking academically and intellectually. For now, Good Luck, and Good Writing. Angela Maria De Nobrega Freitas A point to Mr Edgar - Playwright I would be grateful if you and your assistants would work on your own writing work. Thank you.