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[quote=Anonymous]I was like that as a kid and have made a living as a professional writer. I was a newspaper reporter for 15 years (8 at a major daily) and then switched to healthcare comms for the in-house daycare at the hospital. Now my kid is older and I'm at a PR firm. Anyway, writing always came easy to me and it is something I enjoyed - though it's more fun as a kid, less when you are writing about medical things. Anyway...

I don't think you should do anything different than what you are doing. Just let them write what he/she wants to write, it doesn't have to end up anywhere but your files (keep a few - these are fun to read when you are older). I also agree with the PP - keep a lot of different kinds of books around.

As an adult I believe good reporting makes good writing - fiction and non-fiction - but kids should just enjoy the flow and creativity. Good luck to your writer!

One last thing that changed things for me in my life - we had a school family when I was growing up where the mom published a YA novel. She came to our class and explained how she wrote the book, the publishing process, etc. I was probably in 5-6th grade and had never met a writer. I didn't know this was something I could actually be until I saw a person there who did it, telling me in broad terms how it happened. So if one of your child's favorite authors is coming to town to do a signing or something it might be worth a trip to the local bookstore to hear that and ask some questions. [/quote]

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