![]() Even if it’s fiction, whenever I read a great author, I feel I am being advised on how to become a better writer it is there in each line, in every bit of dialogue and narration. I don’t converse with many authors, so the best advice I receive is through their writing. What is the best piece of advice you ever received from another author? It wasn’t until much later that I decided to take a chance. I always thought it was out of my grasp, a dream, something along the lines of being a professional baseball player or rock star. I never took writing as a career seriously. Was there a defining moment during your youth when you realized you wanted to be a writer? It is a troubling story and one I plan on telling in detail sometime in the future. People are usually taken aback when they learn of my childhood and youth, the difficulties I endured throughout them. What’s one thing that readers would be surprised to find out about you? ![]() ![]() ![]() In short, storytelling tells us who we are, and there is nothing more important than that. Whether fiction or nonfiction, fantasy or children’s literature, all storytelling reveals something about the author, about the reader, about the times we live in. Our history, both personal and global, has been recorded in stories for as long as we have existed. Why is storytelling so important for all of us? ![]()
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