Author Kate Messner visited our students in grades 3-5 to talk about the craft of writing. Messner, the author of over thirty books, shared the process that she goes through to bring her books from idea to finished copy.
Students were amazed that she often revises her books more than ten times before it is ready for publication! Her latest book, The Exact Location of Home, was given eighteen revisions!
Kate spoke about how she writes about what she knows and focuses on details to make her stories come alive. Although the books she talked about with the students are fiction, she told them that they also required a great deal of research to make them real and believable.
Kate made the whole research and writing process sound fun and exciting surely inspiring a few students along the way! Thank you to the PTO for helping sponsor Kate's visit to our school!
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