http://liliwilkinson.com.au/blog/2010/08/30/book-week-2010 Reader and writer of young adult literature Tue, 01 May 2012 03:31:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://liliwilkinson.com.au/blog/2010/08/30/book-week-2010/comment-page-1#comment-294 Amra Pajalic Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:01:55 +0000 http://liliwilkinson.com.au/?p=878#comment-294 Wow, that's brilliant. I watched you in the panel with Jaclyn Moriarty and both of you were so great, and I can see why you're so popular at school visits. You read your extract and you made it come alive in a way I that I was completely in awe of. And I also love the comments you were making about young people. Having the opportunity to run some workshops and be able to interact with young people it's so frustrating to sometimes hear the negative comments and stereotypes that abound. Also when you were talking about this generation being the first who write constantly-text messaging and IM'ing was a revelation. Sometimes we spend so much time de-crying the loss of traditional language skills because of the way words are adapted for technology rather than celebrating this and the possibilities it can create. Wow, that’s brilliant. I watched you in the panel with Jaclyn Moriarty and both of you were so great, and I can see why you’re so popular at school visits. You read your extract and you made it come alive in a way I that I was completely in awe of. And I also love the comments you were making about young people. Having the opportunity to run some workshops and be able to interact with young people it’s so frustrating to sometimes hear the negative comments and stereotypes that abound. Also when you were talking about this generation being the first who write constantly-text messaging and IM’ing was a revelation. Sometimes we spend so much time de-crying the loss of traditional language skills because of the way words are adapted for technology rather than celebrating this and the possibilities it can create.

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