Meredith Sayles Hughes, my wife, talked about her career as a writer recently. While she has authored a dozen books with several more in the works, the class learned about all the other kinds of writing she has done to earn a living. These include writing speeches, advertisements, magazine articles, news and feature reporting, editing newspapers and other author's book manuscripts. Mrs. Hughes has also written plays, poetry, musical comedy scripts and greeting cards. Her current project is writing all the scripts, signage, captions and activity publications for an exhibition at the United States Botanic Garden in Washington, DC. When asked by students what was her favorite thing to write, she told them about her novel. "Writing fiction is a lot of fun, because you don't have to worry about the facts since everything is made up," she explained.
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