Your child is showing an interest in reading and writing – does this mean one day they will become a writer?
Before you get too excited (or groan) here are some other future writer signs to watch out for…
- Your child spends a lot of time in fantasy land or as my mother used to say about me ‘away with the fairies’…
- They like their own company.
- They have an intense stare, which feels like they are reading your mind.
- They have formed their own reader following consisting of dolls, teddies, plastic figures and sleeping grandparents. Once they have finished their story they will scan their group for signs of feedback. Any toys that have a miserable expression on their plastic faces, will be quickly removed and banished to the toy box…forever.
- They already have a love for arduous and tedious creative work. The prospect of going back into their bedroom to rewrite their entire library of little notebooks, filled with stories and drawings, will bring a smile to their face and a twinkle to their eye.
- They have an impressive pencil-case and a vast collection of notebooks.
- Other kids in the local area are impressed or concerned about your child’s wild and wonderful ideas for imaginary games.
- Your child likes to update their toy based reader following on how they are feeling a lot. They are already showing valuable skills for social media.
- At nursery or school your child compares their stories to other children’s stories – A LOT!
- Your child struggles with parent or teacher feedback on their stories.
- Your child adores homework.
- Your child does not mind reading their own story to a room full of dozing relatives, after a huge meal at a family gathering. They just carry on reading with a wide goofy smile on their face.
- Your child obsesses about the start or endings of their own stories.
- Your child writes their own version of their favourite book.
- Your child comes up with the most elaborate and imaginative excuses for why they were naughty.
- Your child struggles to keep handwritten birthday and Christmas card messages short. Distant relatives receive War & Peace on a Christmas card from your child.
I exhibited all these as a child and I became a writer…sigh!
Let me know if there are any more signs 🙂
Have a fabulous day!
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So much of my eldest granddaughter in you words … 11 next month … 100 word story to be published in an anthology in December .. she is a darling too!
Wow! She is definitely showing writer signs!
The signs are there. #15 especially
Ha, ha, yes, that sounds familiar! I was also kicked out of kindergarten (or rather, it was suggested to my parents that I was ready to move on) because I would tell scary ghost stories to the other children at nap time, and they would then wee in their beds at night.
😂 ha ha! The writer in you! Love it!
Looking at my kids now, I think another one is despite having the computer, they want fountain pens to write… Romanticising the art by using a more traditional tool!!!
Both of mine have umpteen notebooks and drawerfuls of pens…
Like me as a youngster!!!
There are signs there Ritu! Good luck 🙂
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Haha yes, this was me! My son is the same, except he hates writing birthday cards because he worries too much about what to write and then gets paralysed by ‘the pressure’.
I have another to add: their teacher confesses they look forward to your child’s assignments the most because they’re so interesting. This happens every time my son gets a new teacher. 🙂
Yes yes!!! Can I add that and link to you? Great!
Yes of course, that would be great 🙂
i can see at least one of my grandchildren who is headed this way )
great presentation….important words…
https://kmihran.wordpress.com/2016/09/18/heartless-pas-de-heartless/
Thank you 🙂
‘They have formed their own reader following consisting of dolls, teddies, plastic figures and sleeping grandparents’ (…)
Lol this is too cute!! I see a lot of me in this and even though I’m not a professional writer, at least not yet, I love writing more than anything 🙂
Hey thx for dropping by 🙂 I formed a lot of reader following groups at a young age…glad you can relate 🙋🏼
#1 and #2 were so me when I was a kid. 😀
Both of my children were dreamers, and turned out to be writers. My daughter, who started memorizing books at 10 months, and my son, who spoke very little, and wrote 3 word sentences in his early years. He was the surprise, took a degree in professional writing, found his words much later. You can’t always tell.
I was like the person in your piece. Very nice. ☺
Thanking you kindly 💐
Great list! 🙂
Thank you!
Haha, brilliant! I remember doing number 14 and 16 when I was a kid! 😉
Ha! Thx Shelley Wilson 🙂
Sounds a lot like me as a child. 🙂 I always got the task of coming up with games to play with my siblings when we were children, because I had such a “good imagination”.
You have a fantastic imagination PG85 🙂
Thanks. 😀
My youngest is showing all the signs of being a storyteller. Like, no mommy. I can’t possibly take a nap because there are crazy birds in my room who want to scoop me up and take me to a volcano. In space. You don’t want me to be on a volcano in space, do you?
Now he only has to master writing his ABCs.
Oh my goodness – wonderful imagination!! Defo – a writer!
My grandgirl is a big reader now..hoping she writes too
I hope so too 🙂 It really is magical!
Love this! I may need to send it to my mum as a possible explanation for all my irritating quirks as a child…
LOL!! I must send it to my mum too 🙂 Funny
Reblogged this on Don Massenzio's Blog.
Thanks Don 😉
You’re welcome
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Pretty impressive list I had as a child 1,5,6,7 and 11. I’ll be watching my son closely. He already picks up his many books and retells the story by looking at the pictures. Bless him he’s only 2.
Hey Kim – keep an eye on your son! Definitely early writer signs there 🙂 thx for the follow
Yes I will be for sure. I never even thought about it this way I just assumed he takes after his mama and loves to read as from a very early age under 2 years we’d go to the library for books to ” look at” and read. I’d be impressed the day he shows me his first creative story for sure.
lol… about half of this was SO me!
Lol – thx for dropping by 😉
I enjoyed this post. As a child, I had wild, imaginative, sometimes scary dreams. So did my dad. He’d yell in his sleep. He wasn’t a writer but a great story teller. My son is a great reader who loves words. He also had a wild imagination. It would just take off and soar. 😀 — Suzanne
Great memory – thx for sharing 🙂
😁May not have done all that but it definitely proves I’m on the right path. Thanks for sharing.
#16 is hilarious! War & Peace… that’s deep, lol!!!
Hey – thx for reading 🙂