The best writing teacher I’ve ever had is two years old

My daughter is about a month shy of two and a half. She’s been telling stories and making up songs since she learned to speak but it’s reached a sort of apex recently. One of her favorite things to do is to pick up a random big book or page of a lot of text, such as the phone book, the supermarket circular, or whatever I’m currently trying to read, and pretend to read it herself. She runs her fingers along the text and uses this slow, breathy storytelling voice (that is probably her version o...