How Do You Start Homeschooling Creative Writers?
Homeschooling creative writers with a creative beacon of hope in the midst of their lives will inspire a field of wordsmiths. Encouragement goes a long way in getting young writers ignited on their way to completing a short story, play or book of poems. There are simple ways to stimulate their minds. After the first successful poem or short story is written, the smile coming from his or her heart will warm the whole house. Have them draw inspiration from their real life. Playwright Lorraine Hansberry drew the characters from her family’s experience growing up in a community. Computer-based homeschoolers have a wellspring of sources from family, friends, current events and other inspiration to create characters for writing a short story. With the right set of characters linked to fictional-character archetypes, short stories, poems and other writing can come from the nimble fingers of homeschoolers. A few black-history month plays may even be born that could appear on Broadway. Help hom
