On Wednesday 30th July Mrs Hawker took us to Port Chalmers School to for a writers workshop. Four authors were there; David Elliot, Sandy McKay, Melinda Szymanik and Quinn Berenston. We went to workshops taken by Sandy McKay and David Elliot. They both told us that to be a writer you need to have lots of good ideas and a notebook to write them in so you can use them later on for your writing. David Elliot said that ideas were like butterflies that fly through your head and you need to catch them. He talked about using delicious words in your writing. Both authors said that to be a good writer you need to read lots of books to get other peoples ideas. We really enjoyed hearing them talk about their writing and what inspired them. We loved it when they read their own books to us because they read it with so much expression and passion.
By Josephine Tarasiewicz and Rory Augustson
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