Author: Amy Law
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DRAFT Thinking Differently — Big Picture
Is it too upsetting to see Zara fail again? It’s a common situation for people with dyslexia, and I don’t want to trigger anybody. But we need to see her fail to see her succeed later.
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DRAFT How We Learn — … and Reading Takes More Energy
We are at the half-way point in the graphic novel. I’ve intentionally kept the sections coming at a fast pace so that you can get a feel for what the GN will be like as a book. How does it feel? Are you lost at this point? What could be made more clear? Less boring?
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DRAFT How We Learn — For People With Dyslexia, Reading Is Hard Work …
This section was a lot of fun to write. Then I stepped back and looked at the story it was telling about people with dyslexia — it is hard to read slowly. Dyslexics: Please tell me if this is too painful to read. Hopefully fluent readers will have a better understanding of the troubles dyslexics…
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DRAFT How We Learn — Some People Have Trouble Learning Reading Scripts
This is the next baby step in where the process of learning to read goes wrong. Am I belaboring the point?
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DRAFT How We Learn — Steps to Scripts
This time when I present how we learn, I point out the individual steps we all go through to learn a script like reading, opening the refrigerator or driving a car. I go back and forth with myself as to if this is too much detail. It sure feels like it, but in the next…
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DRAFT How We Learn — Scripts Let us Take Short-cuts
How the two sides of the brain process information while they learn a task is central to dyslexia. But it is also rather abstract. Because of that, I go over it several times in the graphic novel. Here is the first time I present How We Learn. Is it clear that once you learn a…
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DRAFT A Tale of Two Hemispheres — Character Attributes
With these images, I’ll have put up 99 pages. Am I keeping your interest? Do you feel like you understand what I’m trying to say? * I say that which traits you get are as random as a roll of the dice. But on PAGE 67, I say that there are several genes that influence…
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DRAFT A Tale of Two Hemispheres — How We Read
This section talks about a little brain science. The take-aways I want the reader to get is that 1) human brains were designed to process language verbally, 2) most people can adapt to processing language taken in visually, 3) people with dyslexia use both sides of their brains to process visual language. Do these ideas…
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DRAFT When Reading Went Wrong
I had a good time drawing this section — perhaps too good a time. Do I get too cute? Do you understand what is going on in each panel? I also traced some things — Malik’s head in the first frame is a good example. I needed to be able to zoom in on his…
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Bunch of unusual birds this morning
Last night, another thunderstorm came through and brought our total precipitation amount to an even 6″ for May — fully one third of what we can expect to receive in an entire year! It’s been a wet month after a cold, wet winter. And evidently, these conditions are good for a several birds we don’t…
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