World of Work Series – Becoming a Writer .. 2

mr-white1.jpg Facts we learned about becoming a writer – by Anna, Nina and Monica (photograph by Russell).

  • Proof Readers check your work, but they don’t read the book from ‘cover to cover’ in case they get too caught up in the story and miss any mistakes. So they start from the back of the book instead

  • It’s much easier to write a book now that we have computers. Before that, the writer used a typewriter and printed off the story and the printer had to re-type everything

  • You need to find somebody to publish your book

  • There are different ways of binding a book. Mr White’s newest book has the most expensive method. Cheaper, older methods can mean that the book falls apart easily

  • It takes about a year to write a book but the book Mr White is writing this year may only take a few months as it as not as long as his others

  • He has written  loads of books and has a previous one coming out.This one will be about a mystery story and it sounds quite good.It is set in Grangemouth,Falkirk and is a story about a murder 

  • He also in his spare time writes for The Times. He has wrote a set of books all about Falkirk Football Club throughout the ages. His set of books started of with Volume 1 and is still writing the other sequels

  • His two books the 50th anniversary and the Big book of lists are both ringbinders.You can see them on our class blog!(the post down below)

  •  We would like to thank Mr White for coming and telling us about his book.It was an interesting talk and we learned loads.

4 thoughts on “World of Work Series – Becoming a Writer .. 2”

  1. Gidday Carronshore
    We’re back
    How lucky you were to hear from a famous author! You must have learnt lots of interesting things from him. Real authors don’t always visit schools so its good to hear from one who does. It sounds as though a few people want to be authors in your class!

    We learnt lots of things when an author visited our school last year 🙂

    Maybe you might be inspired to write about the history of your school?

  2. Welcome back, Allstars 😀

    We’re looking forward to meeting the new members of your class ….. and to continuing conversations with the more familiar members 🙂

    Thanks so much for reminding us about your own visit from a famous author (can we ‘borrow’ your post from that moment and put it on this blog?)

    It’s really fascinating to hear from real people who are willing to share their journey into the ‘world of work’ 🙂

  3. Wow you guys are lucky to have a real author in your class. I have read through the tips and they are great.
    Ben
    P.S heres my blog
    youcannotbeserious.edublogs.org and my class one is pamthompson.edublogs.org

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