Hey @hollboll and @chadp - my daughter made a thing!

ACraigL posted a pic said Thu, May 5th 2016 at 8:29am ET

For my aspiring-writer daughter, I procured the December writers' box which among other things (coffee for me, yay!) included an awesome white pen and some quality black paper. She "rediscovered" these last night and whipped this up:

Apologies for the crappy cellphone pic -- but I think it gets the gist. She commented that drawing this, with that pen on that paper, was, and I quote, "One of the most satisfying things ever. Ugh!"

So, thanks @hollboll and @chadp! It made her night. :smile:

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hollboll said Thu, May 5th 2016 at 9:38am ET:

That's awesome, I love the owl! Thanks for sharing @ACraigL, that totally made my morning.

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f00l said Thu, May 5th 2016 at 10:00am ET:

That is awesome. Gorgeous. Brilliant.

She is way tooooooo smart and puts the rest of us at risk of imminent humiliation and/or obsolescence.

Can you start her on a path of wasted talents and mediocrity (heh, heh, mediocre) so that the rest of us can continue onward in emperor-has-no-clothes mode?

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- @f00l Believe me, no one is more shamed and awed than I. She's 16 and has been published a few times now, wrote a winning monologue that was performed by the young philly playwrights association and attended a pre-college creative writing program at Emerson last summer.
  
  And in typical over-achiever fashion, she's going to a similar program at Brown this summer.
  
  And thank goodness she's clearly destined for success, because I'll really need someone to support me when I get older.
  
  ACraigL said Thu, May 5th 2016 at 10:26am ET
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- @ACraigL that's awesome!
  
  hollboll said Thu, May 5th 2016 at 10:41am ET
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- @ACraigL
  Tell her to forget about you. I need supporting, you can wait. And i will feel enhanced by association with her genius.
  
  Dont be selfish, now.
  
  f00l said Thu, May 5th 2016 at 12:36pm ET
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- @ACraigL Award-winning writer, obviously a talented artist, super smart and only 16...the world better watch out!
  
  mehbee said Thu, May 5th 2016 at 11:30pm ET
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sohmageek said Thu, May 5th 2016 at 2:00pm ET:

I was worried where this would be going when you said your daughter made a thing... But it looks awesome! (My wife made a thing lastnight... I don't know what to call it... she tried making cake from cookie mix... it wasn't good.

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looseneck said Fri, May 6th 2016 at 5:53am ET:

I have an owl pocketbook. I didn't know I liked owls until I saw it and had to have it.

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ACraigL said Fri, May 6th 2016 at 10:08am ET:

You guys are so supportive, thanks! Here's one of her published works:
http://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/why-i-write-to-start-a-conversation-and-to-stop-one-knts/

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- @ACraigL that was awesome.
  
  carl669 said Fri, May 6th 2016 at 10:53am ET
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- @carl669 Thanks for taking the time to check it out! She was 15 when she wrote this.
  
  ACraigL said Fri, May 6th 2016 at 12:20pm ET
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- @ACraigL if i could write even 10% as eloquently, i probably wouldn't have to say "fuck" nearly as much.
  
  carl669 said Fri, May 6th 2016 at 12:38pm ET
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- @carl669
  You have a certain pithy, economic elegance and eloquence of your own. Don't change.
  
  f00l said Fri, May 6th 2016 at 12:40pm ET
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Smitty2525 said Fri, May 6th 2016 at 12:43pm ET:

She's ready to for most marketing depts.

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cwolfpack3 said Fri, May 6th 2016 at 5:34pm ET:

She never ceases to amaze me. You are one great dad, ACL.

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- @cwolfpack3 Aw, shucks ma'am
  
  ACraigL said Fri, May 6th 2016 at 7:09pm ET
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