Writing Advice from #1 Son

I have son who is an excellent writer. He would be great for advice and feedback - if only we were on the same page. We don't read the same thing (although he did introduce me to the Night Angel trilogy which I loved) and we certainly don't write about the same things.

Recently I was working on a new idea and passed over the first 200 words or so for his opinion. He threw it back at me. "I'm not reading anything where a little kid gets killed in the first sentence." Fair enough. That might ha...