Outlander Author Diana Gabaldon and Learning Ally

Submitted by Judy Hanning on Mon, 2017-04-03 03:59
The Learning Ally conducted an interview between two authors. Dianna Gabaldon, from the Outlander series was interviewed by Leia Schwartz, who wrote Dyslexic Renegade. Gabaldon said the key to writing a book with many words is to simply write one word at a time. She said writing a long book is the same as penning a short book, except you don’t stop writing.
Afterward, Leia showed Dianna how she uses a helpful program on her tablet. It is especially beneficial to dyslexics. Some of its features include a voice that reads aloud the text to the reader, giving the reader the ability to read slower or faster, and it can highlight text or even change the word color.
Author “I’m a very slow writer. Other people, they just write things down and then they go back and polish and reshape and all that. I don’t do that; I build it really slowly as I go along. But it’s just how your mind is wired up. One way is not better than another. It’s just one way you can write easily and the other is like pushing rocks uphill with your nose.”

Key Takeaways:

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It’s hard to write a book when you have writer’s block.
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Dyslexics look at letters differently than other people.
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Dyslectics when writing builds everything more slowly than other people.