Sunday, January 27, 2002 ( 7:16 PM ) The Home Study Closet

I finally wrote another homeschooling article yesterday... and I'm so happy with it. It was just a spur of the moment mind-flash... I've been doing the writing prompts in A Writer's Book of Days by Judy Reeves... and yesterday the prompt was to describe the contents of someone's closet. I immediately discarded the idea of writing about my own boring closet, and it came to me that I should write about the closet at a home study program I used to be part of. Then... I discarded that idea and decided to write down what I thought every homeschooler should have in his or her closet. So.. I did that, and it was so boring. I realized that I had passed up the better idea, of writing about that home study program. Going back to that, I wrote about 1700 words ... a good article ... one I am so glad I put on paper! I will submit it in February to one of my favorite homeschooling magazines. If they don't publish it - it will be on the web.

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