Death Island!

It has been quite some time since my son last updated his blog, Kramer's Kronicles, a blog we created to post his stories. We started it in January of this year as a way for him to use his time creatively over the winter months while stuck in the house. Over the summer it lay fallow and I wondered if he had lost the bug to tell a tall tale as each storyless month passed us by.

The past few days he has picked up the pencil again and has been working on a story entitled "Death Island." He drew a cover for it and he is now on "chapter five". At the end of chapter four he wrote a particularly scary scene which ended abruptly in cliff hanger fashion. He has picked up this technique from watching "Call of the Wild Man" on Animal Planet. It was a revelation to him when he realized that the show was set up so that something dangerous would be about to happen right as it cut to a commercial. This forces you to stick around and maybe even forego a snack or a potty break so that you don't miss anything.

Well today he disappeared upstairs and after some time I decided to check up on him. He usually does not stay that quiet for that long unless he is doing something he is not supposed to be doing. I snuck up the stairs very quietly and peeked around the corner only to find him sitting at his desk scribbling away. I snapped a shot with my phone and when he looked around to see what that sound was, I took the shot above. He read me what he'd added and as he read he found mistakes and marked them saying, "oh, that's wrong. I'll have to change that later." I told him the word for that is "editing."