How I Became an Author
So... Skye has challenged the blog hoppers to recall how we became authors. It's a long time ago for me, because I've been writing stories ever since someone taught me to write. My sister Anne and I used to roam about the farm playing a game which was really on-the-spot story creation. I was surprised to learn, later, that the Bronte sisters did almost the same thing. I was good at story writing in school, and when I was in Grade Four, our teacher told us we'd be writing books, the best three of which would be entered in a state-wide competition. I worked painstakingly on my story...mainly in trying to get my handwriting legible enough to not get a "do this again" note from the teacher. I illustrated the story with photos which I enlisted my sister to help me stage. We went so far as to take one of our ponies in the river with a calf across his withers. Why stage photos (which had to be taken over a week before I needed to use them) instead of drawing the way my c...