Marcia Thornton Jones
Visits
SCAPA Creative Writing Majors
"You can't give up. I hear that from everyone but when I heard it from an author it really made sense." Sydney
"Just write a paragraph on what you see and build off of it." Calae
"We asked her a ton of questions. She told us a lot of stuff." Marshall
"When she told me to write from your thoughts and just put down words, that was very helpful." Mithra
"She also suggested turning off your computer monitor and type without seeing what you are writing on the screen." Alex
"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." Sarah
"You can get ideas from anywhere like the newspaper, class, the mall or from other books." Jennifer
"It takes a long time to publish a book -- you write it, send it in, and then rewrite it." Elizabeth
"The best way to help get ideas when you have writers block is to take a shower, take a nap, or do something fun." Nisha
"Her passion for reading got her interested in writing." Madison
"If you turn you paper sideways, you can break the barrier of logical and orderly thinking." Kat
"She is an encouragement to kids to never give up." Adela
"To prevent a lack of ideas, you should keep a folder entitled 'story starters' where you keep the snippets of writing you thought were bad or just never got around to." Nora
"She encouraged me to keep imagining and saying 'what if' to everything." Nicki
"She has to get it exactly just right for the editor to make it into a book." Ariel
"Get your mind out of the linear mode." Alli
"She said that one way to improve is to read your story out loud." Emily
"Writing is not all about fame and money. It is about fun." Olivia
"Authors really aren't different than regular people." Carleigh