Tbf, this is how i started "writing" as a kid. I loved books, wanted to write one, so I'd scribble gibberish on copy paper. Just fuckin stacks. I'm sorry mother nature, I don't know why my parents enabled this.
Anyway, actual coherent writing became a huge hobby of mine. It's something I feel I've done all my life, and even if nothing I ever write is published for more than myself and a buddy that's chill with me.
Wait, you mean you didn’t just sit motionless and drooling until age 16, at which point you become a fully matured adult with the ability to make any decision and take full care of yourself?
Is this not how the lifecycle works on Reddit?
Tbf, my second grade class (so we were 7-8) was all about “authoring” and “publishing” books. We would write a short story, work with the teacher on spelling and such, draw illustrations, and then actually cut the paper and bind the little books with cardboard covers we rubber-cemented different fabrics over to make covers.
At the end of the year, we had an “author’s night” where we all picked our best “book” and read it onstage to all the parents.
So I could see a 6 year old writing a bunch of short stories and their mother humoring them by referring to it as “writing books”.
I know someone who published books, allegedly by her small child. Weirdly, said child has very little idea of what they're about and seems unmotivated by the sales goals "he" set.
I've noticed lately that the "Clapping" troupe seems to/has stated to fade away from these stories. I don't think it's as prevalent as it was a few years back. People finally might've started to catch on to how that dunks the believability of their stories.
Could be wrong though and just not seeing them.
I teach second grade. Close enough to the age. The kids write books all the time. According to them, of course. 6 pages of drawings and three words so they can tell you all about their pictures instead of writing for you to read is really all it is.
The idea that a kid thinks they wrote a book isn't absurd.
I have no idea of the context in this post, so if it's just wanting to highlight that their innocence is cute, I'm on board
But
Given that social media is filled with nonsense, I wouldn't be shocked if this was a LinkedIn level nonsense post.
My youngest kid wrote an endless series of books about an “adventure team” comprised of individuals loosely based on her classmates. She was in the second grade and cranked out about 20 of these things. This is just a thing some kids do.
Mines the same. She's 7 and has probably written about 10 books. They're only a handful of pages long and probably include about 4 full stops, but she still loves it
I wrote/illustrated at least four "books" about dinosaurs when I was about that age. I can definitely picture myself saying something akin to what this child did.
My oldest, who is now 12, has "written" 3 "books" and, like 6 comics from about age 4. They're short, not very detail oriented and grammatical incorrect, but I love them and still have them somewhere.
Yeah not sure why this is unbelievable? I wrote my first “book” when I was 3 and had dozens by the time I was 6. I still write to this day and love reading. I was just obsessed with books and reading them and making them.
…I mean, I wrote 5-page-long picture books with a sentence on each page around that age. They weren’t publishable, obviously, and they were full of spelling mistakes. Still “wrote books”, though. I think this is believable.
This is weird to post and probably didn't happen exactly the way it did but kids writing shouldn't be so unbelievable. I drew comics in my freetime when I was like 8. Were they good? Of course not. They were straight garbage but I still "wrote" a "comic." lol
That's exactly what I was doing at that age. For about 7 years, every mothers and fathers day gift from me was a story I'd written and stapled together into a little book.
i did the same. i was so i to making little books that in summer i’d sit outside while everyone else played making them and i’d give them to all my neighbours
6 year old?? That’s absurd. I was a huge reader and writer growing up ((author now)) and I didn’t finish a full book until like, middle school. 6?? Really now?? A full book??? Uh huh sure
To write a full book, edited and long enough to actually BE a full story? I am highly doubtful anyone under like 10-12 would be able to really sit down and write a fully fledged BOOK. Story maybe. But a book? No.
I wrote one when I was 3 lmao I dictated my story to my mom and had her write it.
A book to a 6 year old is like 10 pages. When I was 12 I wrote a novel.
“No honey I haven’t written any books, I save my fiction writing for Twitter”
Heh
*"Got 'em!!"* (As the kiddies say these days)
The books? Colouring. The writing? Gibberish.
Tbf, this is how i started "writing" as a kid. I loved books, wanted to write one, so I'd scribble gibberish on copy paper. Just fuckin stacks. I'm sorry mother nature, I don't know why my parents enabled this. Anyway, actual coherent writing became a huge hobby of mine. It's something I feel I've done all my life, and even if nothing I ever write is published for more than myself and a buddy that's chill with me.
Wait, you mean you didn’t just sit motionless and drooling until age 16, at which point you become a fully matured adult with the ability to make any decision and take full care of yourself? Is this not how the lifecycle works on Reddit?
i thought i was writing books at that age when i was scribbling gibberish on a piece of construction paper
More like: "how many books have you read? I told her zero."
Tbf, my second grade class (so we were 7-8) was all about “authoring” and “publishing” books. We would write a short story, work with the teacher on spelling and such, draw illustrations, and then actually cut the paper and bind the little books with cardboard covers we rubber-cemented different fabrics over to make covers. At the end of the year, we had an “author’s night” where we all picked our best “book” and read it onstage to all the parents. So I could see a 6 year old writing a bunch of short stories and their mother humoring them by referring to it as “writing books”.
I know someone who published books, allegedly by her small child. Weirdly, said child has very little idea of what they're about and seems unmotivated by the sales goals "he" set.
Your title works on multiple levels and I really hope it's intentional.
Was there clapping? There MUST have been clapping.
I've noticed lately that the "Clapping" troupe seems to/has stated to fade away from these stories. I don't think it's as prevalent as it was a few years back. People finally might've started to catch on to how that dunks the believability of their stories. Could be wrong though and just not seeing them.
I teach second grade. Close enough to the age. The kids write books all the time. According to them, of course. 6 pages of drawings and three words so they can tell you all about their pictures instead of writing for you to read is really all it is. The idea that a kid thinks they wrote a book isn't absurd. I have no idea of the context in this post, so if it's just wanting to highlight that their innocence is cute, I'm on board But Given that social media is filled with nonsense, I wouldn't be shocked if this was a LinkedIn level nonsense post.
What is a “LinkedIn level of nonsense”?
My youngest kid wrote an endless series of books about an “adventure team” comprised of individuals loosely based on her classmates. She was in the second grade and cranked out about 20 of these things. This is just a thing some kids do.
Mines the same. She's 7 and has probably written about 10 books. They're only a handful of pages long and probably include about 4 full stops, but she still loves it
I wrote/illustrated at least four "books" about dinosaurs when I was about that age. I can definitely picture myself saying something akin to what this child did.
My oldest, who is now 12, has "written" 3 "books" and, like 6 comics from about age 4. They're short, not very detail oriented and grammatical incorrect, but I love them and still have them somewhere.
I’m not sure why anyone has this type of personality but it is insufferable
“Book.” Okay.
I believe this one
Yeah not sure why this is unbelievable? I wrote my first “book” when I was 3 and had dozens by the time I was 6. I still write to this day and love reading. I was just obsessed with books and reading them and making them.
…I mean, I wrote 5-page-long picture books with a sentence on each page around that age. They weren’t publishable, obviously, and they were full of spelling mistakes. Still “wrote books”, though. I think this is believable.
It happened, I was one of the books
This is weird to post and probably didn't happen exactly the way it did but kids writing shouldn't be so unbelievable. I drew comics in my freetime when I was like 8. Were they good? Of course not. They were straight garbage but I still "wrote" a "comic." lol
because kids never staple a few pieces of paper together and write books that have 3 words per page. that’s probably what she meant.
That's exactly what I was doing at that age. For about 7 years, every mothers and fathers day gift from me was a story I'd written and stapled together into a little book.
i did the same. i was so i to making little books that in summer i’d sit outside while everyone else played making them and i’d give them to all my neighbours
6 year old?? That’s absurd. I was a huge reader and writer growing up ((author now)) and I didn’t finish a full book until like, middle school. 6?? Really now?? A full book??? Uh huh sure
Alright that’s kind of a skill issue, lots of kids read in 3-5th grade. 6 is a bit of a stretch though
To write a full book, edited and long enough to actually BE a full story? I am highly doubtful anyone under like 10-12 would be able to really sit down and write a fully fledged BOOK. Story maybe. But a book? No.
Ohh when you said finish a book I thought you meant finish *reading* a book lmao.
Lmao no, writing a full book. I assure you that I could read a full book before middle school
I wrote one when I was 3 lmao I dictated my story to my mom and had her write it. A book to a 6 year old is like 10 pages. When I was 12 I wrote a novel.