DP Daily Prompt:Spinning Yarns

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What makes a good story teller, in your opinion? Are your favorite story tellers people you know or writers you admire?

 

In my estimation,a good story teller is one who can maintain the attention of his audience till the end of a story.

My favorite story tellers are writers I admire. One of them is Roald Dahl, his stories are meant for children, but adults love them too. One good example is me.

I read many stories written by him, the best one is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The kids I taught were so enthralled by it every day the first thing they said  was , can you  read Charlie and the  chocolate factory?

His other equally fascinating book is ,”James and the Giant Peach.”I think I liked this one more than the kids.

My second favorite author is, Gordon Korman, the titles he chose for his books was extraordinary,l he has the gift. Who wouldn’t be interested if the title was ,”I Want To Go Home”, or “This can’t be happening  at Macdonald Hall.”

Gordon Korman wrote his first book when he was in grade seven, his teacher asked the students to write an essay in class, Gordon wrote ,”This Can’t be happening at Macdonald Hall.” The teacher loved it so much ,he told him to get it published. Scholastics Book Company published it,instantly Gordon became famous.

There are other story writers  I admire, but these two are my favorite!

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365 Writing Prompts: Reading Material

How do you pick what blogs or books to read? what’s the one thing that will get you to pick up a book or click on a link every single time?

Some of the blog posts I always read are written by my friends, then there are some I like because of their poetic skills, I read it  to help me.

There are posts where the writer writes about topics that are very interesting. For e.g., “The Bronx Boys”, there are others who write equally interesting posts.

Books: I always pick books based on the title : “I want to go home’ by Gordon Korman, “Charlie and the chocolate factory ” by Roald Dahl; “A dog’s journey”; and most of Paulo Coelho’s books.

I also read novels by Bengali and Urdu writers in those languages.There are many to choose from so far I’ve read the books written by popular authors.

Besides novels I like reading Biographies of famous people such as: Clinton, Iqbal, Tagore and others.

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