Archive for March 2025

There are so many things that we assume others know and understand but really don’t. The humor in the above quote masks some potentially knotty situation. Think about a miscommunication, a misunderstanding between an adult and child. A time when one assumes understanding on the part of the other that the other doesn’t have. The misunderstanding could be on the part of the adult or the child. Write about it!

Uh, no! Your mother absolutely wouldn’t give permission.
No mother would. But wouldn’t it be nice if she did? Think of a situation in which a child tries to persuade an adult or another child that they have permission to do something that they never would have permission to do. Write about it.

Imagine a really vexing character. One who would never be held up as a model of exemplary behavior. Perhaps the one who would be held up as an example of how not to be. Enter that character’s inner world. Write about them in a way that makes the reader really care about them, maybe even like them!

What is it in you that loves what children love? Find it, the part of you that never really grew up, the part that delights in things that aren’t necessarily mature or reasonable. Find what that part loves. Write about it.