How The Whole Publishing Process Been For Me So Far?

Writing is something that has never been easy for me. For most of my life I have tried to avoid it if I can, but of course I can't avoid stuff like school forever. So for the most part all of my writing has been forced upon me. Even with the help of teachers and some helpful hints from the internet, it never got easier. But obviously I have written before and like anyone else who has written before, there must have been some sort of influence. My main influences were the books I have read, my teachers who have helped me throughout the years, my experience, and strangely enough my music.

I started writing fiction in elementary school, and never looked back. Tucked away among old report cards and craft projects, my mother still has the multicolored notebook containing my first short story, written when I was in first grade. (It's a treat. I may share it here at some point.) So, when I say that writing in ingrained in me, that it's part of who I am, I mean it.

I have always loved to write, and it became even more evident when I entered elementary school. I quickly befriended a girl named Beth, who lived just down the road from me. One afternoon that I remember in particular was in the middle of the summer. She and I were set to write a book. We had read countless storybooks on our own, and we could not see why we could not write one too. We sat down with a notebook and two pencils, and we were set to go.

My history as a writer began ever since I was in school. I have always loved writing. I also love to read. I find it easy to express how I feel on paper. Language arts has always been one of my favorite classes in school.

Like most people, writing has made an impact on my life. I didn’t notice it right away, but once I did it changed my life forever. I consider myself to be a fairly decent writer and I would say it was the only thing that kept me going. I love writing that involves thinking and real emotion. Writing journals and letters have helped me get through a lot in my life and that is really something I will never forget.

I became an activist to help improve the treatment of Native Americans by the United States government. It really bothered me to watch the government mistreat the Native Americans. So, I wrote "A Century of Dishonor in 1881 and "Ramona", which was made into a silent movie in 1910 after my death.

I have wanted to be a writer since before I could read. As a child, I copied picture books out onto sheets of paper, with the illustrations and all of the letters, before I could even put

went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts

I believe I have made tremendous progress as a writer from the beginning of the year. I feel as though I am a total different person as a writer than I was at the beginning of the year. I know I have made progress in the area of citing sources and knowing whether or not the sources are reliable or not. I think I have come along way from the beginning of this course.

I stopped for a moment to get out my flashlight and head lamp before it became pitch black. Light works differently in the woods. There is no light unless it is from the sun or the moon. There are no streetlamps or houses with a light on just, dark. It was absolutely frigid once the sun vanished behind the mountains. I was walking up the road that leads in to the camp. The first that hit me was the smell of rancor, The un-mistakable smell of water mixing with soil. The stream was running strong pushing clear all of the leaves that have drifted down from the trees. The stream was flowed like a small reviver collecting all the water from the rain. I set up my hammock just next to it in-between two towering scrub oak trees with squires flying between them and fell asleep to the sound of the trees talking and the streams

What exactly did you start writing? Capote I started writing short stories at first. Everything I write still surround type of writing.

I was ready to succeed! Since I was not in magnet freshman year, I had an abundance of spare time, so I ended up spending the majority of it reading and writing. My favorite book at the time was Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. Although I had to read this book for an Honors Composition and Literature, I thoroughly enjoyed reading the book. I loved the way the author incorporated historical events and facts such as the end of the Cold War. Over the course of 9th grade, I started to compose a diary. Every week, I would summarize my thoughts from my diary and write a couple pages worth of what I had learned into another book. One day, I got the idea of writing about my past experiences and sharing them with others. That is when I decided to start writing a small book. I had found my new passion! I had always loved reading, but there was something about writing that made me look forward to each

As a young child I always prided myself in my writing. I attended the Young Authors Conference every year during elementary school. The Young Authors Conference allowed us to write and share books that

At edge 38, I was on vacation in Hawaii when I suffered an injury while windsurfing. Unable to get in the water, I started scribbling notes and dialogue on a legal pad. That became my first book, “To Speak for the Dead,” which is still in print – at least digitally – 25 years later.

My author was Gary Paulsen. Gary Paulsen was very interesting. He wasn’t a very bright student, he graduated with a D-average. I learned that Gary based all books about outside because he loved the outdoors. When Gary discovered writing he published his first book in 1966. Gary wrote over 175 books and over 200 articles. I wondered if writing changed Gary’s life for ever. Gary responded, “Writing has changed my life forever.”