Here is a small sample of the reams of material Laura has been supplying to the Artemis Fowl fan community. And here’s another.
She has been putting in a lot of time at this the last couple of months, and it shows. Her dialogue gets better every time I look at it. She has as good an ear for speech as for melody, maybe better. She seems pretty excited about going to writer’s camp for three weeks this summer. My only worry is that she might come out of it a threat to my job. Losing work to India is the least of my concerns. Running into better writers: that’s a real problem.
I guess the biggest difference between Laura’s literary activity and mine at that age is the instant feedback she gets from the Web. The sites she frequents are all about reviews and rankings and there’s a constant flow of chatter among the writers. When I was learning to write, it seemed like a more solitary pursuit. It took a long time to get better. With the commentary Laura gets — sometimes in pretty sharp terms — she knows exactly what to fix right away, and she does.
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