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Cynthia Leitich Smith
American
Author
Fond
Love
Me
Realistic
Writing
Young
Related authors:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Frederick Douglass
Helen Keller
Henry David Thoreau
Joyce Meyer
Mark Twain
Og Mandino
Zig Ziglar
Children and teens take in stories to the deepest imaginable level. What we put on the page can change the people they'll become and the course of their lives.
Cynthia Leitich Smith
Change
People
Become
Teens
Take
Put
Course
Children
Stories
Page
Lives
Deepest
Level
Imaginable
I find getting the first draft down to be the biggest challenge. Every word, every punctuation mark, every plot point is a decision. It's much more fun to play with something that already exists.
Cynthia Leitich Smith
Decision
Word
Challenge
First
Down
Every
Mark
Punctuation
Plot
Find
Something
More
Point
Exists
Getting
Biggest
Biggest Challenge
Much
Fun
Play
Draft
For me, it's been a treat to interact with authors who were publishing when I was a young reader. Judy Blume once gave me a pep talk at a writing conference. I had a short story featured in the same anthology as Beverly Cleary. Magic.
Cynthia Leitich Smith
Me
Writing
Treat
Young
Gave
Once
Pep
Magic
Featured
Had
Beverly
Talk
Reader
Judy
Were
Anthology
Been
Conference
Same
Authors
Short
Interact
Short Story
Story
Who
Publishing
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