Aug 09 2009
Starting Young
When I was at work yesterday my boss’s granddaughter was there while my boss was doing some extra work because of some new protocols apparently she’s a budding writer. While I was on lunch break she was asking me to critique the start of a short story she was writing about a girl who discovered a robber while walking her dog and used the dog as distraction while she called the police. She was double-checking spelling with me and making sure that things sounded okay, and finished up the story just after I was done with my lunch and was wondering what else she should write about.
I asked her what sort of things she was interested in and she declared, “Princesses and fairies.”
I suggested she write a story about a girl who was walking in the woods and discovered a fairy lair and she excitedly ran off to write about that. I appear to have redeemed myself for not knowing who Dru Hill was and liking Rob Zombie rather than Beyonce.
I admit to being quite excited that she is a budding writer. I started similarly writing stories about girls befriending wild otters or friends discovering buried treasure or secret royalty and now I write about space exploration, colonization and psychic powers.
