Keyboarding your Short Stories
Fine, I'm not that old, but keyboarding short stories has only come about since the invention of the personal computer. And I was there! Before that we had typewriters, and we typed. The typewriters did look better eventually. Everything ended up on paper. To this day, if you think about it, we still say 'write a story' as opposed to 'type' it. It just sounds funny. Now, young folks have a computer, but they rarely, to my knowledge, use it as well as they should. How would you go about creating a new short story using your computer? How would you instruct your child? You need to
get your wordprocessors ready.
Of course, you must remember that the creativity needed to write a short story is a thinking process. There's a fair bit of planning to do and there may be a need for some new vocabulary. Also, your child may need to warm up to the whole idea. For now let's try a simple challenge. My sitemap can guide you the rest of the way
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