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Jean Plaidy was the greatest influence on me.
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Jean
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I have ideas saved on my computer that I visit from time to time to see if one may shine and motivate me.
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Computer
Saved
Time Me Ideas
Time May Me
From Time To Time
Motivate
Shine
Visit
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I continue to wish that writing were easier, that it would flow out completely perfect with no need for revisions.
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Flow
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Writers are nosy people; we are endlessly curious: we ask questions when we shouldn't - we peek around corners when we are least expected.
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Corners
Curious
Expected
Ask
Questions
Endlessly
Writers
Least
Peek
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I don't sit down in front of my computer screen and think, 'Right. Today I shall begin a story set in this or that period of history.' I just get ideas from the world around me.
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Computer Screen
History Today World
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Kids who want to become writers might want to start carrying a small notebook in their backpack. I encourage people to sit down in malls and listen, just listen, to how people talk.
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Notebook
Malls
Backpack
Start People Talk
Carrying
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I am as interested in seeing what happens to my characters as any reader; that is why I tell kids that writers write for the same reason readers read - to find out the end of the story.
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Readers
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In 'The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow,' part of the 'Dear America' series, I took my childhood bravery and stubbornness and put that at the core of the Navajo girl, Sarah Nita. It helped me to identify with her survival and to write about her courageous journey and that of her people.
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Bravery
Core
Courageous
Dear
Sorrow
Stubbornness
Survival
Chased
Identify
Sarah
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The values transmitted through oral history are many - courage, selflessness, the ability to endure, and to do so with humor and grace. I got those values listening to my dad's stories about the Depression and how their family survived. It gave me courage that I, too, could survive hard times.
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Courage
Depression
Humor
Ability
Endure
Grace
Hard Times
Selflessness
Stories
Gave
Oral
Survive
Transmitted
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One of my favorite activities when I was a teenager was going riding on the back of a horse with a friend of mine. Because we were rather high up, I could see into peoples' lighted windows as we trotted past. Questions would rise up inside: Who lives there? Are they happy? What are they doing? Any dogs or cats in sight?
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Horse
Riding
Sight
Activities
Cats
Dogs
Lighted
Windows
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When I first began to have the initial idea for 'Heartsease,' I just wrote a skeleton story; that is, I started her off as this young, bright 16-year-old and then added the events that occurred and where she and other characters fitted in, even writing 3 different endings, as I was not sure where Mary's story would lead to.
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Mary
Added
Sure
Began
Bright
Endings
Fitted
Initial
Occurred
Skeleton
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'Hard Hit,' a YA collection of poems, explores the country of grief and survival. Mark, a 16-year-old boy and skilled pitcher, must confront the coming death of his beloved father with the help of his friends, family, baseball, and an idiosyncratic belief in God. I used my own experience of my parents' deaths to inform this journey.
Ann Turner /
Journey
Baseball
Belief
Beloved
Grief
Mark
My Own
Pitcher
Survival
Collection
Boy
Hit
Coming
Confront
Deaths
Inform
Poems
Skilled
Ya
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