How I Became A Storyteller From A Page-Turner
How I Became A Storyteller From A Page-Turner Jumping through fictional worlds, becoming from a reader to a writer. Exhibit A : A young Rifah from fifth grade lay sprawled across the bed on her stomach, eyes scanning the pink book in her hands. It was one of the cute middle-grade fiction novels her father brought home for her. She had become a reader lately, courtesy to the copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone her cousin had gifted her. Rifah had gone through (read: inhaled ) the Harry Potter series (her whole family was Ravenclaw. She checked.), The Chronicles of Narnia series, and then whatever she could find appropriate for her age. But that day, as she flipped through the copy of Forever Four , a thought popped into her head: “Why don’t I try writing stories like these, since I like them so much?” This single thought acted as a huge turning point of my life. Exhibit B: bookstagram /ˈbʊkstæɡræm/ noun 1. a portmanteau of "book" and "Instagram,"...