Babies everywhere!
My book and a new grand baby launch today!
Well it had to happen right?
The day I launch my fourth book, my fourth grandchild (a baby boy!) entered the world!
My book baby and real baby are filling my heart with such joy and optimism for the future.
I love babies.
I love writing!
Writing is the most universally acceptable form of art that everyone can enjoy. We write to know ourselves, first, and then for readers second.
Writing encodes, preserves, and protects that spark inside so that we discover what we really think, what we really feel, what we really want to understand. It’s this “standing outside ourselves” feeling that helps us show up in the world as a person of substance, with valuable thoughts.
Our kids deserve to know this about writing. They deserve to know it about themselves!
You can bet my grandchildren will know it about themselves (in fact, the oldest one already does).
At school, kids are taught something completely different.
They’re taught that writing is a performance for a teacher.
They’re taught that writing is meant to be examined and dissected.
They’re taught that they may not be good at it.
None of that is true!
Everyone can write! E V E R Y O N E!
The epigraph in my book is from Peter Elbow, whose memorial service was on Saturday. I’m thinking of him with such love today.
Everyone with a native language has what it takes to write well and punctuate adequately.
Of course he’s right!
We owe it to ourselves and our kids to let them in on this secret: they are writers already, in search of a transcriptionist.
May every one of us know that the writer lives within. That writer inside of you and the one inside your kids deserves to write.
xo Julie
You can purchase my new book now at bookstores everywhere!
Help! My Kid Hates Writing: How to turn struggling students into Brave Writers
By Julie Bogart
Congratulations on your new grandbaby and your new book, Julie! I was so thrilled to get my book mail today. My kids saw the title and immediately said, "We don't hate writing!" To which I was able to reply, "... and that's because of Miss Julie."
My imperfect attempts to follow Brave Writer principles over the years have helped preserve their creativity and confidence in their own voices, and for that, I am so grateful.
Does my son write pages and pages of his murder mystery series with nary a punctuation mark in sight? Yep. But thanks to you, I know that's perfectly fine, too. ;)
Congratulations on their safe arrivals! What lovely timing. Both such a gift to the world. 💕