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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok, as a professional writer, published author and poet, do NOT send your kid to writing camp. Writopia is expensive and not worth it, for the record too.

Just encourage his art and let him grow. He has ALL his life in college and beyond to be critiqued and edited. Then as a professional writer too. Childhood is the time to let them be absolutely free in their creativity. Writopia and writing camps are not teaching technical writing for academic classes etc. it's teaching fiction.

100% guarantee no nobel winner went to "Writopia"[/quote]

OP here.  I hear you but I am not trying to create a nobel winner.  I am trying to help him get over writers block and learn techniques for making the process easier.

I understand the risk of forcing him to write.  It could make him hate it more.  Conversely, I think letting him avoid writing just makes it worse.

I decided to go the tutor route but with a twist.

During one week this summer, I am taking a couple of days, my husband is taking one or two and my parents are taking one or two.  We are each going to plan a "home school" day with writing, an outing and other activities.  The thought is that a few hours of writing in a day coupled with fun and some family time will be beneficial.  One of those days, my child is actually coming to work with me and will be set up with a computer in my office (got approval from my supervisors and my son is really excited to be coming to work).  I have a few ideas and will come up with a schedule.  We are not going to critique as much as try to get him to expand and use different descriptor words.

Depending on how well that one on one goes, I may look into a tutor for the school year or some kind of diary projects.[/quote]

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