Homeschool Writing Course for 7-Year Old Leads to Published Book
By Sun Kyu Bae |
Published May 14, 2010 |
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It's easier than you think to have your child's book resting on her own bookshelf!
I want to be totally upfront before I start writing any further: The homeschool writing course for the 7-year old in the aforementioned article was for my son, Ryan. And while I am proud of his accomplishment (what parent wouldn't?), this article isn't just about him. But rather, the point of this article is that, structured correctly, any ordinary child can get her story published and sold on Amazon.com by using a homeschool writing course similar to the one mentioned below. Read on to find out how.
How It All Started
First some background facts:
Ryan loves writing stories, but his interest in writing isn't to the point of it taking over his life or anything. For example, when his sister, Lauren, is playing with him, he'll play to his little heart's content. But when Lauren goes back to playing with, say, her toys, Ryan will start writing stories. He'll usually spend around 20 - 30 minutes writing his story. His favorite subject? Haunted houses. In fact, my wife and I read so many different descriptions of haunted houses in his stories that, if we found ourselves in front of a real haunted house, we would probably start critiquing it on its merits rather than actually being scared by it (i.e., graveyard clearly visible in the front of the house? Good! No shutters on the windows with broken hinges? Bad!).
Anyway, seeing that Ryan was interested in writing stories, we decided to build an entire curriculum around writing. There was only one thing - we never had any experience teaching how to write a story. We figured that we would start by letting him know that we're going to improve his penmanship by helping him write any story that we wants to write about. We also told him that this story will be the story of all stories, the best of the best.
I still remember his reply, "Wow Daddy, that's great. How are you going to do that?"
At first I thought that we would just have Ryan start writing like he always does. But then, 20-30 minutes later, he would probably be done and that would be that. So, rather than teaching a writing course that would lead to Ryan creating 10-12 different stories, it became obvious that we had to plan the course out so that the final product would be his best and longest story.
Not knowing exactly how to proceed with planning this writing course, I started Googling topics about how to write stories from a kid's perspective. And that's when I hit pay dirt.
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