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My Grandson Writes!

by Anne Wayman on May 17th, 2007

Last night I had dinner with my oldest son (the tech writer) and his delightful family. My grandson, the 6th grader, had a writing assignment he was having trouble with so his father asked me to do a bit of coaching. What a joy!

His goal was to draft a feature article on J.K. Rowling’s and he’d decided to show how difficulties in her life paralleled some the incidents experienced by her famous character Harry Potter. Ye Gods! Sixth grade? And he already touch types – a skill I spent a whole semester learning in 7th grade.

We spent a few minutes talking about what he was trying to accomplish… I gave him the start of an opening line (after showing him yesterday’s blog) and he was off and writing. He’d switch between word and google, checking facts, then back to the article.

He started to struggle because he thought he needed more, and then causally mentioned his teacher told him to double space. Sure enough, as soon as we changed from single to double, he had more than enough.

It wasn’t perfect, but it wasn’t bad – as a draft it made good sense.

Can you tell I’m a proud grandmother?

Write well and often,

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