by T. A. Barron | Jun 22, 2016 | About T. A. Barron, Blog, Featured, For Young Heroes, Heroes, Inspiration, Writing & Creativity
Graduates: Follow Your Dreams, Make a Difference Practical Advice for Grads I’ve always loved a good story. As a kid, I dreamed up stories and poems, sometimes to avoid doing homework, sometimes just for the fun of messing around with words. My first real story,...
by T. A. Barron | Feb 15, 2016 | Blog, Inspiration, Nature, On Nature & the Environment, Writing & Creativity
How Are You Inspired by Nature? While hiking in California some years ago, I found the most magnificent tree I’d ever seen—a redwood of such grandeur that I nearly fell over backward trying to see its highest boughs. As I came closer, the smell of its resins enveloped...
by T. A. Barron | Jan 21, 2015 | Blog, Writing & Creativity
How I Got My Start As A Writer I have always loved the world of stories, ever since I was a kid. In fact, I loved stories so much that I even made up my own little magazine when I was in 5th or 6th grade. Unfortunately that little venture almost got me expelled when I...
by T. A. Barron | Mar 13, 2014 | Blog, Writing & Creativity
Questions from Readers About Writing and What Influenced Me to be a Writer I’m often asked questions by other writers on how I got started writing, and for advice to them on their own writing. I try to answer as many of your emails and Facebook posts as I can, but...
by T. A. Barron | Sep 13, 2013 | Blog, Writing & Creativity
How Do You Write Your Stories, T. A. Barron? (This is part I of a two-part series on how I write. For part II, please click here.) It’s the question fans always ask: “How do you write your stories?” Writers say they hate this question, and probably...