https://www.davidsongifted.org/gifted-blog/reluctant-writers-understanding-common-issues-for-gifted-children/ Sat, 01 Oct 2022 21:00:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://www.davidsongifted.org/gifted-blog/reluctant-writers-understanding-common-issues-for-gifted-children/#comment-11109 Sat, 01 Oct 2022 21:00:22 +0000 http://www.davidsongifted.org/?p=2494#comment-11109 Constricting young gifted writers to page numbers they must write is, in my experience as an English teacher
(and gifted writer), less than the best of ways to work with artists. Freedom to write what one feels is important because the mind works best when it can
think with freedom. People surprise me when they say
they want articles that are “high-impact” products in
writing. An artist’s response to that is often “to h with that” and then they go back to the things that are
appropriate for the feeling that guides the heart and
mind in writing. The mind is a delicate thing and it
needs its freedom. Nothing stifles like saying “I want
a two-page article”.

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