Karen McLaughlin

=My son, River Spirit, 13, who has had a declared hatred of writing
*anything* since the beginning of time, has just informed me that he is
writing a book. (Be still my heart!!!!!) His book, currently titled, "A
Warrior Reborn" is about three people from a lost civilization: a chef,
a teenage Royal Guard, and a retired gladiator. There are also several
subcharacters in this adventure story. He says he has written 44 pages
of the first chapter and is also using digital images (created with Lego
people) to illustrate it.=

= That is very cool! And what great idea to illustrate it that way. I'll
have
to tell my son about that. His internal world of characters and conflicts
revolves around the Lego guys and he's always telling stories about them.
He'd love to make a visual story about them that way.=


My older son Noah (5 1/2) has been spending a lot of time lately creating
what he refers to as "My Star Wars Lego Movie". He's seen all 5 Star Wars
movies (impatiently awaiting the next one - anyone know when it's supposed
to come out??) and has created a lot of fairly complex ships, etc. He has
made up a bunch of new characters as well (including "Bad" versions of most
of the main characters -e.g. "Bad" Han Solo -that have all gone to the Dark
Side) and a plot which continues to unfold, with new bits and pieces added
almost daily. He hasn't expressed any interest in trying to record any of
this so far, I think I'll ask him if he wants to.


Karen