July 2010
5 posts
True Expression, age 12
I helped out at Austin Bat Cave on Tuesday, editing their soon to-be-released student anthology. After pouring over dozens of poems, short stories and writing exercises, I concluded that teenage writers can be classified into two groups:
Kids writing like a writer.
Kids writing the way they think.
The first group is comprised of “good students.” Their writing receives top marks for...
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