Understanding Why We Write

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Why do we write? As a job? To earn a living? To express our thoughts and emotions? To share our knowledge? Or simply because we’re good at it? I first started to write creatively when I read Jules Verne’s “A Journey to the Center of the Earth”. It was science fiction that got me mesmerized into reading a novel or any fiction for that matter. For years I’ve tried to...

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Children’s Story Books

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If I have any dream as a writer, it’s to publish a line of children’s story books. All written by myself. I already have two stories although they are not yet polished. I am not aiming along the line of J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter” series because that is already an epic. I don’t want an epic. I want a story that is short that little children will fall in love...

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My Old Books

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Yesterday, I went back to our old house. I went straight to my old room, glanced up on the bookshelves and started to mentally sort my old books still placed there. That’s why I went back. I wanted to get some of the books which I think are too valuable to be left behind. By valuable I do not mean that they are expensive. It’s just that they are a bit hard to find from the bookstores...

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