thats a very beautiful writing (in English and ASL)<br><br>wow! :-)<br><br>Keep it up - maybe we ll do the same thing in English and NISL<br><br>(dont glare at me, Mammy Val! ;-) )<br><br>Shane<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 26/02/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">Kimberley Shaw</b> <<a href="mailto:skifoot@gmail.com">skifoot@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello Val and all the SW-listserv folks:<br> it has been a LONG time since I've done anything on the SignWriting<br> site directly ... but I am very much still in the signing world, and<br> still using my SignWriting. As a matter of fact, I just showed it to a<br>
Deaf friend the other day, and it was so much fun to watch him begin<br> to *read* the signs very quickly after I showed him how SignWriting<br> works. So intuitive for us visual folks!<br> So, here is why I have been too busy to put words into the ASL puddle<br>
-- I have been writing a novel.<br> Truly!<br> No, I have never done anything of the sort before, but this is what<br> happens when an idea comes along and begins to grow. And grow. In this<br> case, there is a mainstreamed girl who goes to a school which is a lot<br>
like Hogwarts, but American. But when a hard-of-hearing person tries<br> to fit into an environment where spells are all spoken, things do not<br> go as smoothly as they ought to. Then she encounters a group of<br> witches and wizards who use Sign ...<br>
And of course, I plan to write all of the Signed dialog directly in<br> SignWriting, and hope to find a publisher who is agreeable with this<br> concept! The picture attached gives a sneak peek at some dialog in<br> Chapter 6. For those who would like to follow the novel, a preliminary<br>
version of it appears at <a href="http://fanfiction.net/~artemisiably">fanfiction.net/~artemisiably</a> -- but minus the<br> SignWriting, alas.<br> All the best,<br> Kim from Boston<br> <br><br> <br> <br> ____________________________________________<br>
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