Are you telling me I can’t write?
Posted by Teresa | Under Some of my thoughts Sunday Feb 1, 2009Now, this is a discussion I had with my daughter this afternoon. It started because she is doing this project for school where she can earn an award for submitting about four examples of her writing. The submissions are due on Monday and we were talking about what she still needed to do in order to get the writing ready to give to her teacher.
She told me that really all she needed to do was to type them up (she had written most of these last year for assignments, which she can use). I asked her if she thought she wanted me to look at them and she replied, “No, thank you. If there is anything I would like to change, I will do it. She continued, “It isn’t that I don’t want your help, however, I want the writing to stay in my voice because I like the way I write.
So, then a question came into my head. If someone else helps you with your writing, do you feel they are telling you can’t write? Or do you take it as being helpful?
For me, I wasn’t going to change what she wrote but I felt I would be helping her. However, I do understand her point of view too.