Jessie’s class has been learning to write essays over the past couple weeks. That girl loves to write and I’ve read several of her stories that she’s written on her own. She has a great imagination, and I told her that she should keep writing even if it’s just for fun. (after all, I got my poetry and for a short time did write several short stories and published two of them)
So far, for her assignments, she’s written about karate and cartoons — two subjects she knows very well. LOL! Her assignment this week has been to write a description 5 paragraph essay. She was showing it to me last night — she wrote about dogs. She mentioned that her teacher encouraged her to write about something else (as the majority of the class wrote about animals!), and she was stumped and out of ideas.
I named off several things that she knows well: her various video games (UT!!), Harry Potter, Webkinz (too much like animals she said), Neopets, … she rejected them all and I was running out of ideas. Looking over across the den, we have a box of wedding stuff waiting to go into storage. I suggest writing about her part in the wedding. No dice. My next suggestion: How about the honeymoon?
“Huh?” LOL, she gave me a puzzled look that made me laugh, “You know, Disney World?”
Her face lit up like the 4th of July. Eureka! I hit gold. :mrgreen:
She scrapped the paper she had previously written and started at once writing a new one. She let me read it just before bedtime last night and she wrote more about the hotel cafeteria and pool than the Disney World park itself. LOL!
Good thing we went there instead of the royal caribbean cruise I had been eying, hehe.
So my little budding writer was all happy and giddy when I left for work this morning. She was still talking about the paper she wrote last night and can’t wait for her teacher to read it.
That’s my girl! :cool:
Uncle Monster
She could write a horror story about a guy who loves children
with barbecue sauce and is especially fond of the toes because
that’s the crunchy part. Muhahaha! Muhahaha!
[8~{} Uncle Monster
Devilish Southern Belle
Inspiration strikes in the unlikeliest of places sometimes, huh?
Do you still write? I wish I did. There is just no time, and not enough people into what I write, who also have time, to help me properly critique it. Like every other project I try, I have such a hard time getting started to begin with…then finishing.
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Nicki
LOL @ Uncle Monster. :)
@DSB: Not as much as I’d like. I used to write all the time, then I got a life and a family, LOL! ;)
I actually had inspiration strike me at 4 am this morning and I *almost* sat up and picked up my bedside notebook and pen to jot it down, but decided that sleep was more important. hehehe
I had the tune of Metallica’s “Leper Messiah” playing in my head and had a few lines for a great Obama-parody … hopefully it’ll come back to me later today, preferably in the long-ass boring meeting I’m supposed to be in, in an hour. :mrgreen:
Uncle Monster
How old was Jessie when I met her, ‘5’ ? Did she ever believe
that I was going unscrew her bellybutton so her behind would
fall off?
[8~{} Uncle Monster
Nicki
Yeah, she was 5. I think she was unsure about that because she asked me several times if that was true. ;)