I'd love to see the original 8 lines. But good on you for not crushing the little child. We were all young and stupid once. Some of us still...
On a serious note, I have to restrain my criticism sometimes with wee hob, who is 12 and has some educational delays. It's hard not to go right into fixing what he writes, but what he really needs now is encouragement and questions that spark further movement in the right direction, towards having an actual plot or theme or something.
When I am old and he is a famous novelist, I can say it's because I let him write tales about giant spiders when he was 12.....
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Date: November 20th, 2007 02:21 pm (UTC)From:On a serious note, I have to restrain my criticism sometimes with wee hob, who is 12 and has some educational delays. It's hard not to go right into fixing what he writes, but what he really needs now is encouragement and questions that spark further movement in the right direction, towards having an actual plot or theme or something.
When I am old and he is a famous novelist, I can say it's because I let him write tales about giant spiders when he was 12.....