That next book was not Deleted either! After that she wrote a screen play, and THEN she wrote Deleted. She said that was a great decision because the first book she had been laboring on for years, trying to write a great literary masterpiece. She went home and started working on another story. He, without missing a beat, said, "Start your next book." So that's what Ruth did. Someone else asked what advice he would give to an author struggling to write their first book. She had written one book, that no one has seen, and then she went to hear Alexander McCall Smith (author of the Ladies Detective Agency series) at a library. "Whenever I talk to young writers I try to tell them that the biggest stumbling block was myself, was just that it didn't seem possible to be a writer. In college she majored in journalism, because she was afraid that she might not make it as a writer or that it wasn't "a real job." She worked as a reporter, in marketing, and then as a stay-at-home mom, while writing on the side. She would write plays for the kids in the neighborhood (all through elementary and middle school), would sell her toys to buy lumber to make backdrops for her performances! This reminds me of Jo and her sisters and their productions in Little Women. While she didn't have good hand writing and wasn't good at math, she always excelled with creative writing in school. A post shared by Laura Miller □ on at 8:40pm PST
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