I just finished reading submissions to a writing contest for high school students. I am on the panel of judges and we met to go over our choices and comments today. It was so exciting to read the stories. Overall, the writing was inventive, lively and with a strong sense of narrative -- so much better than anything I was writing at that age.
It was also great fun to discuss the submissions with the group of judges. Everyone had read the works quite closely and we had a lengthy and involved discussion about the relative strengths and weaknesses of various stories. I think we were all relieved to see such a good level of writing from teenagers. I'm tired of reading articles about the death of the book and of our attention span. Let's give our youth (and J.K. Rowling) the credit they deserve.
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