The only struggle he has is coming up with what to write about. And it does not matter if it is creative writing or not. IEW has made that a bit better, but he is still under the impression he has to produce something profound. For example, the past few days we have been working on outlining a short story. He was very excited about changing it up to make it a bit different. We brainstormed ideas, etc. Then when he went to write he flipped out. So after trying various things to help him along I just said write the story as if you are writing a letter to a friend about this event. That got him going at least. But even with non-fiction stuff requiring one to basically regurgitate the information, he flips. Not sure what to do about that!
He does well with grammar, punctuation, spelling, structuring sentences and paragraphs, etc.
I would like him to practice writing more, and I want whatever we use to be mostly open and go. Sometimes I spend so much time looking for the perfect story or resource that we might not get to writing because I haven't found anything. Apparently the indecisiveness runs in the family! Haha...
I would be perfectly fine with not doing too much creative writing. He has a love hate thing with it. He loves the idea of it, but he hates having to actually do it because he gets stressed over not being able to be original and interesting.