I have hardly heard from my child for days. She goes into her room and communes with her (it’s now hers), laptop.

“Who’d have thought writing was so addictive!” a quote!

I was worried: writing, and I am sure there are other posts on me worring about her saying she wants to be a writer when she grows up yet NOT doing the physical act of writing… I have been doing the physical act of writing and typing for her for years, but it seems my days of service are over.

She just told me her life would not be over if there were no books – I am assuming that she means that she would write them!

She is really writing – as in thinking about the story, getting it down, editing and adding, getting feedback (not from me), and loving it. The problem is now finding someone to help her that is not me and will talk about the actual writing, not go all grammar and metaphors to her… currently, she is working on a play that she wants absolutely NO ADULT involvement in. But does need more actors…

these are some slips from a word game we were playing one evening that she wants to use as story starters – clues, prompts.. then there is also the fortune telling thing she made as another starter idea… and we have been watching the 48-hour movie shorts. Ideas abound.

This last book fair, she brought several dictionaries – rhymining, quotes, Shakespere quotes (of course), a thesaurus…  proverbs and grammar books!