I am a writer.  Since I received my first journal at 9 years old, I've used words and language to share my heart and my ideas.  I love when a person can tell me a story, or convey a message, or just communicate what they are feeling.

So much of writing seems difficult for the young authors out there.  We call their assignments "Essays" and "Book-Reports" and we often have a metric for these struggling writers that seems impossible to beat.  This is not that...this will touch on those important structures of language, those rules that you just have to have to convey meaning in the story...and then we'll set about the story-telling that turns into delight.

I believe in building young writers one easy, accomplishable step at a time, so later they can construct a world out of words.

This is the first in a series of Creative Writing Classes that will lead those who want to join me in November for National Novel Writing Month and NaNoWriMo's Young Writers Program.  If that sounds interesting you can see what that is here (https://ywp.nanowrimo.org/pages/for-writers ).