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    How to Be an Author: THINK LIKE A READER

    For the past two weeks I’ve been sick with what the doctor called walking pneumonia. Between the wheezing, coughing and attempting to catch my breath, I haven’t been doing too much walking. It’s also difficult to concentrate, when your body gyrates from the explosive convulsion of impacted lungs. Without concentration, I’ve found my ability to write has been limited to blogging twice a week and attempting to write a few words in my journal each day. My journal is for my eyes only (Believe me, there’s nothing there you’d want to see.). As the title above suggests and as I’ve written about previously, it is important for writers to be…

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    How to Be an Author: THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL EXPERIENCE

    When I was growing up I didn’t know any authors. My parents vocations–my father was a firefighter and my mother sold Avon and Tupperware or worked at a number of federal government jobs depending upon the year–didn’t provide a lot of opportunity for rubbing elbows with those scratching out a living by writing. To make matters worse, my elementary school didn’t even have a library. We did have a bookmobile that came around a couple of times a month. To check out a book and discover a new author I’d climb up a couple of steps into what looked like a converted Greyhound Bus and walk down a narrow aisle…