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If you were a Writer by Joan Lowry Nixon. (Description below.)

If You Were a Writer by Joan Lowery Nixon (Author), Bruce Degen (Illustrator)

Are your children confused about what you do? This picture book follows a little girl trying to comprehend her mother's writing career, and eventually writing her own stories.

 

 

Life Beyond the Keyboard

 

Few of us spend our entire lives at our computers, writing and editing, however much we might want to. We have families, jobs, volunteer work, hobbies, and other priorities that demand our time. This chapter will explore how to juggle a writing career with other demands, how to use our writing to help the other parts of our lives, how to pass along our legacy to our children, and other aspects of life beyond the keyboard.

 

Getting the most from a limited writing schedule

Teaching our children to love writing

Writing our family history: Use your writing skills to turn your immediate family's life into a story to be shared through the generations. It's likely nothing you will write is more certain to become your legacy and give you immortality.

Mentoring new writers: Others helped you and now it's your turn to help another writer.

Personal Journaling: In addition to a writer's journal, you need to save your own experiences and emotions for future writing.

What to look forward to:

Writing a history of your long-ago ancestors. Most family histories are filled with family group sheets and individual records. Turn the dull statistics into a story that shows how your family came to be throughout the centuries. This will improve your ability to write historical fiction professionally.

Donating our Writing to Non-Profits

Journaling