I have twin sons who are in elementary school, and one of my greatest joys is writing original fiction for their classes in which I incorporate their classmates as characters. Watching the students’ reactions as they hear their name assigned to characters within a fictional story is priceless. And, I believe, it awakens young minds to the power of the written word, and the realm of the imagination, making the idea of reading, and writing, more exciting.

At first, I liked the idea of writing stories th...