As a home educating parent, I made an accidental discovery about overcoming reluctance to write. On one occasion, my 7 year old cried for 1 1/2 hours after being asked to write a few sentences. Horrified, I pulled back from asking him to write anything for a while, questioning whether I had been completely unreasonable to put such a burden on him. Later when I began writing "Plimgar to Luminar: Samuel's Quest", all of my kids showed sudden and consistent interest in beginning their own writing projects and 2 of them (including the cryer) still continue to work on creative writing whenever they can.
Maybe it was a timing thing, but I have the feeling that my own desire to write piqued their interest. Some things are better caught then taught I guess.
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