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Living Room / Re: A good gift for a 10yr old: Wreck This Journal
« Last post by 40hz on April 26, 2014, 07:35 AM »The only fly in the ointment with an approach like this is that I feel there's sometimes far too much: "ignore the rules and what others may think" - and far too little: "in every craft or art there's a certain number of skills that need to be mastered before you posses the necessary tools to express yourself creatively."
Probably because most of the people who write this sort of book already have mastered the basic skill set and common body of knowledge for their art form, and can now no longer see the point since it's completely integrated into their creative process.
Like the great poet said to the aspiring kid who handed him 100 pages of blank verse: "That's is all well and good kid. But put it aside for now and learn how to write the rhymey-dimey stuff. If you can do that - and still be interesting - you'll be able to write anything."
Probably because most of the people who write this sort of book already have mastered the basic skill set and common body of knowledge for their art form, and can now no longer see the point since it's completely integrated into their creative process.
Like the great poet said to the aspiring kid who handed him 100 pages of blank verse: "That's is all well and good kid. But put it aside for now and learn how to write the rhymey-dimey stuff. If you can do that - and still be interesting - you'll be able to write anything."
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Things that can, will, and do influence the coins inclination one way of the other are the users own aptitude score, the age of the machine, my mood, the day of the week, and of course - most importantly - the time of day... As one must always, and in all things account for and defer to the will of Murphy's Law lest they risk incurring the wrath of the fates.
Superb and surprisingly affordable.