When I Grow Up, I Want To Be A Writer

by Cynthia MacGregor

Finally, a book for the budding wordsmith! Veteran author Cynthia MacGregor tells it like it the only way to become a good writer is to write, write, write! With entertaining anecdotes, practical tips, and useful exercises, MacGregor encourages children to sharpen their pencils, satisfy their creative urges, and strengthen their communication skills.
Packed with practical tips and exercises, When I Grow Up, I Want to be a Writer offers something for every kind of writer. From journalism to fiction writing, this book covers it all, introducing kids to the many different career paths writing can take.

100 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2001

About the author

Prolific author Cynthia MacGregor has had 54 (at last count!) books published conventionally and another over-50 published as e-books. A full-time freelance writer/editor, she works from a home office In Palm Springs FL, just outside West Palm Beach, where she writes books, ghostwrites books for others, writes “almost anything if the price is right” (web copy, catalog copy, advertisements, business materials, and lots more), and edits books, magazines, websites, and “whatever else needs editing.”

She loves writing so much that it’s even one of her hobbies. For example, she writes all the plays produced by the Palm Springs Players, a South Florida community theatre group, for which she gets “no money but lots of enjoyment.” She also enjoys wordplay with an online punsters group, PUNY, and when possible travels to the annual O. Henry World Championship Pun-Off, a wordplay event held every May in Austin, TX, where she has appeared some years as a competitor and other years as a judge.

Cynthia is site owner of both www.TheSoloParent.com and www.ThePublicApology.com and is producer and host of Solo Parenting, a weekly TV show seen in South Florida, whose audience is single parents, whether divorced, widowed, or never-married, custodial or visitational, moms or dads.

Loving her career, Cynthia believes herself truly blessed and says, “There is no one in the world whom I’d want to trade lives with.”

Reviews

[Maris Põkka · Rating 3 out of 5]

“Kui suureks kasvan, hakkan kirjanikuks” jagab ideid pealkirjade, alguste, lõppude, dialoogide ja kirjelduste vormimiseks ja muutmiseks. Mõned nõuanded suunavad väikeste nüansside sisse kirjutamise kaudu vastama lugejate ootusele teksti usutavuse suhtes. Näidatakse, kuidas jahmatada ja naljatada.
Ülesanded on enamasti konkreetsed, on ka vähemotiveerivaid ja hajusaid. Läbitegemise failist sai õnnitluskaardile kohe loomingut üle tõsta, ehk, et oli praktiliselt väärtuslik lugemiskogemus.