Isabela Cariño
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Pamela S. Turner:
How did you manage to be a good author, what were your steps? p.s- I love the story Hachiko is really good. In school I'm supposed to write about a story and I choose this story so I'm writing about this.
Pamela S. Turner
Thanks for the question, Isabela! The most important thing to do if you want to be an author is to read. Read, read, read, especially the sort of books you would like to write. When I was first starting out I would take a book that I particularly liked and looked very closely at how it was written. How was the story structured? What sort of word choices created the emotion I felt? How did the author create mystery or drama? I looked at very specific things. The biggest mistake that people make is to think they can just type something out without learning the craft. Nobody would ever say, "Hey, I think I'll make furniture" and grab a saw and think they are going to spit out a china cabinet over the weekend. But some people think they can do that with writing. So...read, read, read, study writing, write, read some more, write...and you will have the training you need to be an author. I hope that's helpful.
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Ms. Turner, I am a fourth grade teacher who purchased your book about Samurai Rising about three weeks ago. Already, three of my students have completed it, and a fourth is half way done having started it two days ago. One of my students' family is from Japan, and his mother was able to share her knowledge of Yoshitsune with him. It fills my heart to hear my students rate your book a 10 on our scale of 1-10! ?
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