Em is a writer. At 12, she has a much more mature 'voice' than I did at her age. It's in the vocabulary and--I think more interestingly--in the innate sense of humor, of irony, of sarcasm that she's developed.
(Her spelling and grammar, on the other hand, are atrocious. She gets that--along with a good amount of her talent--from her dad, whose ability to write dialogue is astonishing, but who, for instance, puts arbitrary questions marks at the end of statements. Drives me insane.)
Last night, as just a small part of her English homework, she had to write a poem. It wasn't five minutes between the time she told me she was going to do a haiku and when she came out, grinning, to read me what she'd come up with:
I enjoy talking.
I probably talk too much.
Just ask my teachers.
Self-awareness. It's a key writerly trait, don't you think?
6 comments:
ROFL! Priceless.
Perfect!
That's terrific.
A genius!!! Like her maternal grandmother.
My father died when she was 14 and she wrote a paper for school call My Father and the teacher failed her because she said that someone else wrote it, that L could never write that. My poor mother had to go to school and fight...
Writing runs in the family except for moi'.
Yes. I do think. Well done.
LOVE it!!
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