Researching Essentials in Writing

I'd been in pause, pray, and ponder mode over what to do with Daisy for this year with English and perhaps beyond that - namely the writing instruction part of that subject.

We don't think she's ready for Writing With Skill, Vol 1 yet - a possum in the headlights is not the look we're wanting.
The writing instruction Susan Bauer gives in those books is almost custom made for Jay - Daisy is needing something else; something incremental and preferably with a visual instructor who teaches with short instruction clips.

After researching our options, and narrowing down the choices for something that could work for Daisy.  I asked for other Sonlighter's experience with one course in particular, emailing the author (Matthew Stephens) and then read through Merry's review, over at Hope for Homeschool.
We made a decision ..... and I managed to make good on the sale price and free postage (yes, free to NZ!) Essentials in Writing was offering a little while back and purchased Level 8 for Daisy.

I'll update once we've got past start up mode; which is in 3 weeks from now  ......