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Oct 13, 2020 · Tony Abbott is and has been a full-time children’s writer for over 20 years now—he has written just over 106 books, including Danger Guys, The Secrets of Droon, Firegirl, Kringle, The Postcard, Lunch-Box Dream, Underworlds, The Copernicus Legacy, and many more. He lives and work in Trumbull, Connecticut, USA.
Tony Abbott will lead the winners on their exciting mission! Goofballs (Egmont USA, 2012, 2013), ongoing series ... He is the luckiest writer he knows. Visit the ...
- Q. How Do You Write Books?
- Q. What Inspires You to Write?
- Q. Where Do You Get Your Ideas?
- Q. What Advice Do You Have For Young Writers?
- Q. How Do You Make A Simple Story Idea Longer and More interesting?
- Q. How Do You Write A Mystery?
- Q. How Do I Make My Story More Fun to read?
- Q. Should I Write A Book?
A. Wow, that’s a big question. I guess the most important thing I do to help me write books is to read books. I read everything and I read often. Books are my favorite things. From reading, I have learned the power of the printed words sitting on pages like little doodles of ink. Those printed words can make you see things in your head, experience ...
A. I think maybe my biggest inspiration is that I love being with the characters I create and seeing what kind of adventures they get into (and out of!) with each new story. The moment the characters begin to speak in chapter one, that’s really when the story gets wings and starts to take off. I love being on that flight with them.
I get them everywhere. I read as much as I can. I read the newspaper, books about history, biography, archaeology, and some fantasy, and with just about everything I read I ask myself what I can learn from what I am reading. Sometimes, what someone says might help me think of a conversation my characters might have; once I hear the characters talki...
A. The first piece of advice I like to give young writers is to do everything you can possibly do so you can learn what it feels like to be in different situations–without doing anything inappropriate or risky, of course. The more you can feel and know about the world, the better your writing will be. Talk to people (in safe, appropriate situations...
A. There are a few things you can do to help make a story longer. I often get to a point in writing about characters where the characters begin to talk for themselves. You may find that the characters say things that don’t seem as if YOU wrote them, but as if they are saying things themselves. Of course, this is not really true, but it seems true w...
A. Even if your story doesn’t start out as a mystery, you can add a little sense of mystery to it by leaving out information and filling it in later, little by little. Mysteries happen to us all the time when we ask ourselves questions about things: why did that person act in an unusual way? What will happen when a new student is added to my class?...
A. I would suggest you break up your short story into chapters. These don’t have to be more than a page or even a paragraph, but beginning a new chapter separates your story thoughts and helps to add a “beat” to the flow of your story. Once you have the story broken into chapters, think about how to make that chapter full and complete. Let’s say yo...
A. Yes! You should write a book! You should write lots of books. The great author Patricia Reilly Giff tells young writers to imagine a character, and put him in a place, and give him a problem. Once you imagine a character, you will begin to hear them talking and hear them as they think. When you know what they are like, they begin to do things, s...
Tony Abbott is the author of over 35 books for young readers, including the extremely popular Droon series, which has sold over 4.5 million books to date. He has been a bookseller and librarian, and currently lives in Connecticut with his wife and two daughters.
About the Author. Tony Abbott is the author of over a hundred books for young readers, including the bestselling series the Secrets of Droon and the Copernicus Legacy and the novel Firegirl. Tony has worked in libraries, bookstores, and a publishing company, and has taught creative writing. He has two grown daughters and lives in Connecticut ...
5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings. Tony Abbott has 204 books on Goodreads with 129867 ratings. Tony Abbott's most popular series is The Secrets of Droon.
Tony Abbott is the award-winning author of more than 80 books for young readers, including Firegirl, The Postcard, and the Secrets of Droon series.He lives in Connecticut with his wife and two daughters.
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