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Laura
Charlotte had
a quiet beginning. It began with a casual conversation with a friend. "Do
you remember when you were little," asked the friend, "and you received
a package in the mail? A package addressed just to you?"
Oh, yes, I did remember the excitement and anticipation. But that
was just the beginning of the writing journey. I had to ask myself:
Who was this child? Who sent the package? And what might that package
contain?
Are my stories autobiographical? Yes and no. In every story there
are bits and pieces of me. As a child I always had tall chocolate
birthday cakes with butter cream frosting and pink sugar roses on
top. But my stories change and grow until they belong to themselves.
My favorite part of the writing process is revision. I love pruning and
polishing until a story glows. In Laura Charlotte, I revised
and revised until the story wasn't just about a special birthday gift
that arrived in the mail, but a story about love - about a circle of love
between a little girl, her mother, grandmother and great-grandmother,
all linked together by a little gray elephant named Charlotte.
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