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Craft Chat 5 Things you’ve learned writing ‘Book name”

One thing I learned trying to fix two dyslexic kids is spelling is processed in a different part of the brain from reading and so is writing. So yu have to fix each seperately. Very interesting on the word chunks. That's new to me. Fluency in reading means it is totally unconscious. You dont notice yu are doing it. I'd say few kids being taught today are reaching that. Were yu taught to read phonetically or whole word?
 
Really inspiring thread! I'm particularly suckling on these two right now, from deep in structural edits (which are NOT my forté) and the resultant rewrites:
5)Plot holes cannot be avoided, only embraced.
3) The stuff I liked the best came from stuff I wasn't sure would work, and wasn't sure how to do, but did it anyway.
 
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