Personal Review Of An Essay On Being An Author

Improved Essays
Kelly Conley
Mrs. Abrams
English 1
15 November 2016

Being an Author Have you ever thought about writing a story for fun? Authors do this all the time! They get to create anything in a book, or they can create a non fictional story or some form of writing. (which you can research, and have real world problems in). It is very important that we have authors, if we didn't have authors. We wouldn't be as smart as we are today. Authors help children learn reading, writing, and school lessons. Being an author has a lot of responsibility. Some authors have to work in a certain amount of time, and under pressure. But some authors work at home,where they can have there own time to think and research. But most at home authors have other jobs while they try to get their books published. They might not have a steady paycheck, but authors that have a company they write for have to work with time limits. You also have to have really good skills such as: creativity, critical thinking skills, writing skills, and english skills. Also the very first book was created in the eighteenth century B.C, in sumeria on the clay table. Or the gutenberg bible. Researchers have not yet found which one
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Each writer has to pick one to follow the guidelines in each topic. A narrative is a non fictional or fictional story not a auto biography. A expository writing is an article without stating your personal opinion. Persuasive writing is an article to convince you could put a speech. To explain why it is such a good idea kind of like a commercial And descriptive writing is very important. Descriptive writing is where you are very descriptive, you are writing to show and try to make you picture something explain every little detail. Authors need to know all of this in college you need a bachelor's degree, which is four years of school. You need this to work at a completely running

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