But today I had an interesting encounter. I was finishing up a class when their visiting reader arrived. He informed me that he was a writer. And he reminded me about the most important fact about writers: they write. Isn't that what I created this little space for? Well, I best be getting back to it!
So what do I want to say as a writer? I guess I'd like to write things for children that they'll want to read. I spent the afternoon going over writing prompts that had students analyzing writing pieces that just seemed so irrelevant to them. But the question that remains is what DO kids want to read? I mean, its got to be relate-able, fun and hopefully something worthwhile to learn. But one of my reflections today was that anything more than 140 characters is "too much". Heck, we've even become so illiterate as society that social media now has just photo sharing sites a la Instagram. Don't get me wrong, I love a good IG account, but where is the reading? Where is the literacy? Where is the learning? What will these things look like in one hundred years?
What words do I want to leave for the future? What about you?
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