A budding author...

[Partial cross-posting]

As part of G's homeschool English work, he is given a list of around 20 random words and has to write a mini story that uses them all in reasonable situations. Nothing too 'out there' but still fun.

Off his own bat, he decided that the individual stories wouldn't be stand-alones, but each would be a chapter in a little novel! Great use of the brain there lad.

So far, 5 'chapters' are done, and he's still finding it fun('ish) to do... so that's great. Though the story is, by necessity, a little wonky in places in order to include the list of words, he's doing a great job of trying to keep an overall consistent plot. Well done!

On top of that, he has taken a real shine to writing product reviews on the toys, books, movies and activities he experiences thanks to the 'hobby site'. The results have been amazing there too, with reviews being written that read more like a 10-12 year old, rather than a boy about to turn 9 (in just over 5 weeks!)

Thats the sort of stuff that makes my chest puff out in pride. :)