Birth of a storyteller

Kylie, thinking about her next story

So this weekend my daughter went to the Young Writers Workshop, a great school district wide program to help young writers develop their craft. Kylie selected her favorite 5 sessions, but got assigned “Ha Ha Very Punny” and “First Person Fiction”. Despite saying that the Very Puny session was more fun, this is the result of her first person fiction:

One day I was playing tag … do you really want to hear what happened? Oh all right, I’ll tell you.

One day I was playing tag and my friend was it. She can run fast and I mean very fast. I was wearing shoes that were way too big for me and I fell! Hard. I was crying so hard!

Suddenly, I felt myself being lifted up and carried down the street by my dad. One of the girls on the street was having a picnic outside and they let me go inside their house and get bandaids and have a picnic with them. And we did.

- Kylie McRobie

What do YOU think?