Of Pens and Inkwells

armydoctorpeterpotter:

amandaonwriting:

Six Reasons To Embrace The Power of Stories:

1. Stories have always been a primal form of communication. They are timeless links to ancient traditions, legends, archetypes, myths, and symbols. They connect us to a larger self and universal truths.
2. Stories are about collaboration and connection. They transcend generations, they engage us through emotions, and they connect us to others. Through stories we share passions, sadness, hardships and joys. We share meaning and purpose. Stories are the common ground that allows people to communicate, overcoming our defences and our differences. Stories allow us to understand ourselves better and to find our commonality with others.
3. Stories are how we think. They are how we make meaning of life. Call them schemas, scripts, cognitive maps, mental models, metaphors, or narratives. Stories are how we explain how things work, how we make decisions, how we justify our decisions, how we persuade others, how we understand our place in the world, create our identities, and define and teach social values.
4. Stories provide order. Humans seek certainty and narrative structure is familiar, predictable, and comforting. Within the context of the story arc we can withstand intense emotions because we know that resolution follows the conflict. We can experience with a safety net.
5. Stories are how we are wired. Stores take place in the imagination. To the human brain, imagined experiences are processed the same as real experiences. Stories create genuine emotions, presence (the sense of being somewhere), and behavioural responses.
6. Stories are the pathway to engaging our right brain and triggering our imagination. By engaging our imagination, we become participants in the narrative. We can step out of our own shoes, see differently, and increase our empathy for others. Through imagination, we tap into creativity that is the foundation of innovation, self-discovery and change.

From: The Psychological Power of Storytelling by Pamela Rutledge, Ph.D.

From Writers Write

btw

this is also incredibly important to remember in education or just when teaching anything.

hermionesque:

#YES YES YES YES THIS IS HOW GOOD BOOKS SHOULD LOOK #i understand it when people hate cracked spines #but anybody that says a battered and falling apart book is sad #and thinks that’s not how you love a book #is talking shit #i love books and they look good like this #they are meant to be read and passed around and get crushed in bags because you can’t leave the house without them #you’re meant to dog ear the pages you love and underline in pencil and stick in stickynotes #if you want pristine you should buy an e-reader #because this is how you experience a book

(via teacoffeebooks)

(via armydoctorpeterpotter)

armydoctorpeterpotter:

I have this edition! :D It looks just as torn-up. And it’s perfect.

I love books that look well-read, with pages dog-eared to show how much you love them, spines breaking so that the book falls open to where you pried it open extra-hard. I love books with stains from food you remember spilling, when it was too good to put down. I love books with torn covers from being stuffed into purses and knapsacks and pockets, ripped by other books and pens and simple use.

I love books that look loved.