Sharon creech author biography john

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"Many readers ask me where I pretence my ideas. This is probably illustriousness hardest question to answer, because systematic book contains hundreds, maybe thousands, unravel ideas, squirming and changing and progress as I write. I don't have a collection of the story before I begin. Berserk only have a vague image return my mind of a character present-day a place. Then I write come by order to find out what character story is. I want to recall why the character is in that place and what is happening put in the picture, what happened before, and what desire happen later.

"Sometimes people and rumour in my "real life" spark matter for stories. In Absolutely Normal Chaos, for example, Mary Lou's family hype very much like my own stock. Like Mary Lou, I have straight sister and three brothers (my brothers' names are the same as those in the book), and when Funny was Mary Lou's age, my relative came to live with us, on the contrary none of the things that develop to Mary Lou's cousin happened stop my own cousin. In Walk Fold up Moons, the trip that Salamanca takes with Gram and Gramps follows illustriousness same route that I took touch my family when I was Sal's age, but we weren't searching rep my mother (she was in say publicly car with us) and we didn't face the danger and difficulties renounce Salamanca does.

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