Encourage a Young Writer Day 2024
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I underwent a year or so of intense English grammar and syntax study due to my mother's dissatisfaction with my grades in a couple of areas. As time progressed this cascaded to my writing skills which improved as well as my general grasp of the English language.
Later in life I found myself at work writing things others published under their bylines and it was a frustrating world of stolen work and others assuming credit for things they could never do.
The words used were "let us use your writing because it's so much better than ours and after all we're all on the same team". I should have told the thief NO and quit. However, I relented resulting in their copyright being placed on my work and it becoming claimed as their property.
Today is Encourage a Young Writer Day. It is an annual April 10 occurance which is meant to inspire the natural storyteller in children.
It naturally cultivates vocabulary, creativity, imagination, and the discipline required to write. It is a time for ideas and dreams to come to life on the written page.
I hope you can take the opportunity to assist a young writer in their endeavors at becoming the next Samuel Langhorne Clemens or J K Rowling.
Happy Encourage a Young Writer Day to you.