Leah T. Williams

Their or there? Affect or effect? Loose or lose?Everyone has a word that makes them stop and second guess themselves. That moment before you hit send. That pause before you raise your hand. That feeling that language belongs to everyone else and you are just borrowing it. WORDS WERE THE ENEMY is the story of one girl's year-long battle with the words that trip her up, the friendships she finds along the way, and the slow, surprising discovery that the words she feared most were never really her enemies.
Told in verse, this is a book for anyone who has ever felt betrayed by the English language and kept going anyway. For the student who crosses out sentences before anyone can read them. For the teacher who watches smart kids go quiet over a spelling mistake. For anyone who has ever written the wrong word and felt their stomach drop. Funny, warm, and deeply relatable, WORDS WERE THE ENEMY proves that getting it wrong is not the end of the story.
It is just the first draft.