

I hope my readers feel the same way about I read a lot and when I put a book down, Iįeel the author has become my friend. When I’m not writing or walking, I’mĬooking or reading, mostly reading. It’s when you get to make the story more and Make up everything: the weather, the people, their clothes and the food theyĮat. Getting a story down for the first time is the hardest part because you have to I’m also thinking about what I’ll be writing next. That’s when I solve any problems that have come up Usually work until noon when its time to explore the frig.

There are herons and eagles in my book about India and Africa andĬhina, only their plumage is a little different.Īfter breakfast, I’m at my computer or writing in my secret garden. I walked in the woods or looked out of my study window often found their way The eagle and the ospreyįished the lake and the blue heron stalked the lake’s edge. Walking around the lake and deer drinking at the lake. Ice, its muzzle between its paws, lazing in the sun. Sometimes a coyote trotted out on to the lake and lay on the Piled up from the ground and hung down from the roof until you could hardly see In the winter the lake was a big white circle and the snow

The nearest house was a mile away and I had to walk half a mile Michigan in a cabin on a small lake, Oxbow Lake. I think all the books I read when I was young had a lot to do with my writing.įor over thirty years my husband and I lived in the woods of northern In high school I edited the school paper. When I got to elementary school I began writing poetry. I would tell a story to my baby sitter and she would type it out. I began making up stories before I could write.
