Writing Club Update

I haven’t shared about my writing club lately because I haven’t been there. For the January and February meetings, my boys were sick. Finally, we were able to make the March meeting.

At the meeting we talked about style—writing style that is. We discussed how our personality should shine through in our writing and that we should not strive to write like the last novelist we read. I read to them a section from The Christian Short Story by Ruth Hobbs. If you have a child interested in writing, this book is highly recommended.

We discussed how we often “talk” different from how we write because when we write we are trying to impress; and that that habit does not allow our personality to shine through. To demonstrate what I was talking about, we did this exercise. I gave them a topic. I told them to write a paragraph about cell phones being an interruption. After they wrote their paragraphs, I had them discuss the topic with a partner and I recorded what was said. Then we compared our word choice, sentence structure, and general attitude that we used in our writing with what we actually spoke.

The girls walked away not only thinking about their writing, but also their speech.

We only have one more club meeting this year as our last support group meeting is a picnic. I asked the girls if any of them would be interested in working through the One Year Adventure Novel next year. Have any of you used it? I’d love to hear how it went.

Blessings,