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Andrew Bell

writer, profile published in BRAT, Summer 2002

My writing has two essential goals: to express my views of the world and to communicate with my fellow human beings. I'm sure that I'm not the only writer who feels a conflict in their personality because sometimes I need time alone to write and at other times I need to be interacting with people. I don't know how other writers accommodate this conflict, but I did it by becoming a rock singer and then an actor. Then I discovered Writers in Schools! I love visiting schools because children are so alive with imagination and open to the world. A writer needs these very qualities. I enjoy encouraging children to nurture their own writing abilities. Once I was engaged to help two schools to create their own original picture books. The kids were buzzing when their own creations went on the school library shelves.