Today, and yesterday, we were doing placement tests at the academy. Reading, writing, listening and speaking. Some of the kids did very well. Some are so fluent in English I forget it’s not their first language. I’m proud of them all regardless of their results. Learning a foreign language is not easy and some of my kids are only 7 years old but writing essays etc.
Thinking of my fears again, I have another thing I’m scared of regards fiction. I love reading crime fiction and have had a few ideas myself, but I’m too afraid to write them or see them published. I’d feel terrible if some copy cat replicated the fictional crimes, I came up with, in real life. That probably sounds stupid, but it is a fear of mine. What if I wrote about a murder or serial killer and someone copied that. I don’t know how crime writers reconcile that and get around it.
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