And the ghosts still talk to me as I write about them. The stories I wrote then were full of real and imaginary darkness, the same as now. I still inhabit the kind of world where a damp cellar room makes a good den where the shadowed view through the high window into the yard is at once preferable and more exciting than the clear one out to sea. Since then my typewriter might have changed but really, truly my stories have not. Mistakes did not matter, smudges were part of the scenery, the paper was magical and the typewriter and I were a pair of adventurers.
I taught myself to type (rather badly but with plenty of gusto) and revelled in the way my stories jumped out of me with each inky letter hammered onto the paper. What it became was a room I ran down into with the sole purpose of plonking myself on my wooden chair, resting my arms on the old work table that was now my desk and staring determinedly at the little red typewriter as if it were planning on taking me somewhere. The work includes activities that can be adapted for different abilities, as well as.
The exercises in this book are suitable for ages 7-14. The cellar was mine, a rather dank, creepy playroom that I had visions of making into a fabulous den. All the work in the Creative Writing for Kids series has been used in classrooms, workshops, private classes and individual one-to-one lessons, as well as by children working independently at home. I have been writing since I was five years old and was given my first typewriter when I was eight. I am Amanda J Harrington and I write books for children and adults.
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