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Writing Career
When L.
Loverly was in the 6th grade her favorite
teacher (Chuck Elliott…love you Mr.
E for putting up with me talking all the time
and passing notes in your class, as well as
for teaching me to write my first outline!
She deserved all of the hundreds of sentences
you made her write for punishment.) gave the
class an essay contest for their homecoming
event. The winner would have their essay read
in front of the entire school. L. Loverly
knew that she could not write a paragraph
to save her life (not Mr. E’s fault)
so she wrote a poem instead for fun. On the
day of the assembly in the gymnasium Mr. Elliott
got up and said that there was a student that
was disqualified from the essay contest for
writing a poem but that it was so good that
he was going to read it anyway before he read
the essay winner! She enjoyed her moment of
fame and thought that would be a nice feeling
to have again sometime in her life but never
dreamed then that it was going to be as a
published author!
The idea
for the first book “What Shall I Pretend
To Be Today?” came about when her daughter
April was little and used to dress up all
the time as cute and funny things. Some days
she would dress all in black and be a spy
hiding and looking around the corner at her.
Then some days she would dress in all pink
from head to toe. April even had her “uniforms”
that she would wear every single day until
she grew out of those clothes. She was very
creative in her dress up adventures and her
mother enjoyed those days so much.
So one day
L. Loverly decided to write down some of the
dress up ideas for fun so she could put it
in her scrapbook and remember them later in
life when April was big, boring and not doing
the dress up anymore. Since she was terrible
at writing paragraphs, (as mentioned above)
so she decided to write it in poem form. After
she finished the poem she thought it would
be fun to take some photos of April in the
dress up clothes while they all still fit.
Then the idea for the book came two months
later, and also the idea to add Wade in the
book for comic relief. The whole project got
completely out of control over the years,
and now L. Loverly is currently working on
book 5 of this series of hopefully 10 book...6
years later!
