Lian Tanner Author | Writer
Lian Tanner Author
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25.01.2022 I visited Cambridge Primary School in southern Tasmania today. A semi-rural area with a whole lot of new housing. I asked the kids (two groups - one years 2/3 and the other years 3/4) to put up their hand if they were a writer. Just about every hand in the audience went up. Huge enthusiasm for writing! So lovely to see kids claiming that title, and thinking of themselves that way. From talking to the literacy teacher, this is something that they have achieved over the last two years. I was SO impressed.
23.01.2022 Just spent a very enjoyable morning at Waimea Heights primary school, talking to grades 4, 5 and 6. Lovely kids. The new beginning to my presentation, especially adapted for feral, end-of-the-year grade sixes, worked well.
22.01.2022 It’s a hot day in Hobart.
22.01.2022 A friend posted this in a chat group today. Like looking up at the stars, it offers perspective, and it seemed appropriate to pass it on. What do people gain from all their labors at which they toil under the sun? Generations come and generations go,... but the earth remains forever. The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises. The wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever returning on its course. All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again. All things are wearisome, more than one can say. The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing. What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. Is there anything of which one can say, Look! This is something new? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time. No one remembers the former generations, and even those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow them. (Ecclesiastes 1.3-11)
15.01.2022 I just did my first live online school talk. I've done a number of recorded ones, but this was the first one that I couldn't cut and paste over the awful bits. But it was better than I expected. The kids were lovely, and very engaged, and my usual talk fitted the online format reasonably well - with a few adaptations. Next week I've got a writing workshop with the same group.
09.01.2022 Saturday morning poem.
08.01.2022 I just had the best zoom meeting with a bunch of kids who have been reading A Clue for Clara, courtesy of the wonderful Leesa Lambert at the Little Bookroom in Melbourne. Such great questions and comments. And yes, my top half was dressed up and my bottom half was in shorts and socks.
06.01.2022 I can identify with this.
04.01.2022 So the second half of the new book (follow up to Clara) is terrific. Now I just have to get the first half right.
02.01.2022 Just doing the vacuuming.
