If You Were a Writer

by Joan Lowery Nixon

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Enjoyable story on how a mother/author shows her daughter how a writer lives and thinks, and facilitates her writing process. A good introduction to the writing workshop for children. (

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Melia wants to be a writer just like her mom. She's not exactly sure what a writer does, though. She sees her mom staring at the typewriter and then she sees her opening up boxes of books. But what comes in between?

With some help from her mom, Melia begins to learn the tools of the trade. She learns how to make pictures with words, how to search for ideas, and, of course, how to start a story. Before she knows it, Melia's creating her own spellbinding tales. Maybe she is a writer after all!

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Melia tells her writer mother she'd like to be a writer too, and as the day progresses she receives many helpful suggestions.