Maybe not every aspiring writer will be able to meet and be encouraged by a published author, but I want to offer you the next best thing :) I want to share with you advice from published authors that I have been blessed to get to know since I started blogging. A few weeks ago I shared with you an author interview with the author of Asia: It's People and History by Bonnie Rose Hudson. Now I want to share with you an author interview with the author of Star Chronicles: A Bible-Based Study of the Stars, Dawnita Fogleman. (My review of Dawnita's book, Star Chronicles will be coming soon.)
The most encouraging thing that happened to me as a young writer was meeting a man who was actually a published author. He was a friend of my grandparent's and when I was in Toronto visiting my (other) grandparents, this author agreed to meet with me and let me interview him and write an article about him for our local paper.
Maybe not every aspiring writer will be able to meet and be encouraged by a published author, but I want to offer you the next best thing :) I want to share with you advice from published authors that I have been blessed to get to know since I started blogging. A few weeks ago I shared with you an author interview with the author of Asia: It's People and History by Bonnie Rose Hudson. Now I want to share with you an author interview with the author of Star Chronicles: A Bible-Based Study of the Stars, Dawnita Fogleman. (My review of Dawnita's book, Star Chronicles will be coming soon.)
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Are you or your child an aspiring writer? All my life I loved to write! When I was a kid I dreamed of being an investigative reporter, but I loved all kinds of writing! When I was a teenager I was blessed by a man with a local paper who allowed me to get some experience by writing for his Free Press. I wrote human interest stories, which I loved doing! I also wrote the Teen Chat column for awhile. When I was pregnant with our first child I finished my first, and only, novel, and sent it away to a writing contest. I did not win, but it was an amazing experience, just to know I actually finished writing an entire novel! That manuscript was mailed just a few days before Princess was born. After becoming a mother, writing definitely went on the back burner :) It was not until September 2013, when I started this blog, that I became serious about writing again. I wish I had worked harder at it when I was younger. I still dream about being published somewhere other than my own blog, and am hoping to branch out more by being a contributing writer with other blogs, but it is still something that has to sit on the back burner for me. Being a wife and mother comes first, and everything else just has to wait, for now :)
My oldest daughter has an incredible imagination and makes up stories all the time! She is my daydreamer, and is very much like I was when I was her age! I want to encourage that creativity in her and have been trying to help her get her stories down on paper (or the computer). If writing becomes a passion for her, I want to encourage that and do what I can to help her become a published writer, if that is what she wants. |