With the Inklings Book Contest deadline around the corner, it’s time for some encouragement from one of our writer friends! Megan E. Freeman, author of the novel-in-verse, Alone, advises, “write often and to share your writing with trusted readers. There is nothing like having a reader to inspire a writer to write more.” Her most trusted reader has always been her dad. She still “sends him my words and he still reads them and talks about them and tells me he loves them.”
Megan shares:
“Write and play and arrange and rearrange those letters on the page, and then find a trusted reader or two. Invite them into your writerly world. And then go write some more.”
We appreciate your positivity, Megan! You can get to know Megan better at https://www.meganefreeman.com/
Megan E. Freeman attended an elementary school where poets visited her classroom every week to teach poetry, and she has been a writer ever since. She writes middle grade and young adult fiction, and her debut middle grade novel, ALONE, is available from Simon & Schuster/Aladdin. Megan is also a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet, and her poetry chapbook, Lessons on Sleeping Alone, was published by Liquid Light Press.
