Wednesday, 19 November 2008

Anne Cassidy at St Paul's Way


Year 8 and Year 9 students were incredibly lucky to take part in two writing workshops given by Anne Cassidy, the author of some fantastic books including Looking For JJ, Love Letters and Forget Me Not. Anne spoke to the students about how difficult it is to get a book published and the importance of a good beginning to a story. Most of us were amazed to find out that publishers only read one page before deciding not to publish a book! Anne gave the students the opening sentences of some books that she hasn't written, and after a short discussion about why the sentences were interesting, everyone settled down to write the first paragraph of a story. The results were fantastic, and you can read some of them as they are on display in the library. Congratulations to all the students who took part. Anne Cassidy was very impressed with you and so was I.

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