For us, "spelling" and "creative writing" are two separte things right now. When ever ds1 is doing writing on his own (and yes, lots of it right now is short letters to friends, or to go with the pictures he is drawing) I don't correct spelling. I want him to feel free to just create! We work on spelling, grammer etc at other times. I'm sure that will change as he gets older, but right now, I do just want him to write....bad spelling and all.