A Family Writing Affair

My daughters and I all like to read a lot and write even more. Somehow it is in our blood. My 23 year old likes to read Stephen King and writes a lot of his type of novels. I keep encouraging her to actually finish one of her stories so that she can actually submit it in a contest or do a query for it. She has a very creative mind and many good ideas. I think she is afraid of rejection and criticism. In all the time she has been writing, she has only shared one or two of her written stories with me. I will ask her to give me one or two excerpts from one of her novels to share on my blog.

My 14 year old likes to mostly write poetry, usually involving something she is feeling strongly about. She reads Young Adult novels dealing with current teenage issues, such as peer pressure, drugs, the opposite sex, as well as modern romance, nothing too mushy though. Recently, in her English class, the students were asked to write a poem using certain vocabulary words. I asked her if I could share what she wrote on my blog and she said yes. So here it is:

TEMPTATIONS
by Samantha-Anne

When temptations seem gaudy and glamorous
The voice in my head gets annoying and clamourous

I try to vanquish all that it said
But voices get louder and over crowd my head

They keep at it unitl it enters and beguiles my mind
That's when my beliefs and values are left behind

Now that I have done what I didn't want to do
It feels like I intered my heart

Now what I have to do
Is make sure temptations never again tear me apart


A family that writes together, sticks together, right? Is writing in your family too?