A Letter to the Author

A Letter to the Author

What makes a good book? What makes a great book? How does a book inspire a person? How does the writer know how to write an inspiring book? Why does it seem like a writer is writing something just for you as a reader? There are so many questions you can ask about a writer and a book but I feel the answers come from the person who has read the book.

I must say you book Dragonsinger is and awe-inspiring books to me personally. I have always fought against what I am in life because I never felt it was good enough. I thought that what I was to be was destined for me already so there was no point. I was going to fallow in my parents footsteps so I might as well get use to the idea. Depression then hit me as I came to this realization and I did things that stopped me from doing what I truly loved to do. It was my way of cutting my hand like Menolly did. It hurt of course and it was horrible to know I did it but I went on with life as it was. I didn’t leave home or hide but I did hide what I did until one day I couldn’t anymore. I was found out for what I really was and was put into a new category. I was a writer and there was nothing I could do about it and I should share my talents. That was what I was told over and over but I just couldn’t really believe it. I mean it was only one little poem that wasn’t even that good. I couldn’t believe that my work was what people like to read. I guess that I was like Menolly there as well, my poems, her songs, we didn’t feel them to be great but people thought they truly were.

I had a lot of other things I fought against as well. Like being treated as I felt I should be. I am a girl so lets face it I am suppose to be weaker supposedly but I always hated that so I worked harder then ever to prove myself to be stronger. People I felt only wanted to be my friend for the things that I had, be it my truck, money, or anything else they could think up. That hurt a lot. I wanted to be seen as a person not as what I had or what I...

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