http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Sat, 18 May 2013 01:01:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/14/a-monster-calls-carnegie-winner-deals-with-the-subject-of-death-2/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/14/a-monster-calls-carnegie-winner-deals-with-the-subject-of-death-2/#comments Thu, 14 Jun 2012 12:30:59 +0000 Susan Elkin http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25287 A book about dying, death, bereavement and coming to terms with loss has won the 2012 Carnegie Medal.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/14/a-monster-calls-carnegie-winner-deals-with-the-subject-of-death-2/feed/ 0 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/05/15/reviewing-skills-should-be-taught-in-english-lessons/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/05/15/reviewing-skills-should-be-taught-in-english-lessons/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 08:57:56 +0000 Susan Elkin http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=24008 The best possible training for any sort of writing is to read as many examples of the genre written by experienced people as you can. That way you absorb the conventions and possible approaches. You won’t write, say, a decent novel, play or poem unless you’ve read plenty of novels, plays or poems. And exactly the same principle applies to theatre reviewing.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/05/15/reviewing-skills-should-be-taught-in-english-lessons/feed/ 2