We are very excited to welcome Dizzy in Your Eyes author Pat Mora to Random Buzzers! She will be joining us all week to answer your questions! Haven't posted a question yet for Pat? Head on over to her forum here and give her a shout out. Be sure to check out the activities section as we have created some fun activities in Pat's honor. In the meantime, here is a letter written from Pat to YOU! Enjoy:
Love! Love! Love!
Is there a better topic? Sometimes exciting, sometimes sad, love can make us feel weird or giddy. I started the poems that became DIZZY IN YOUR EYES: POEMS ABOUT LOVE in 2005. I had a great time writing a book in the voices of all kinds of teens, poems about all kinds of love. When I visited schools or colleges, I asked students for advice since I wanted to explore the highs and low-lows of love.
I sent a few of the early poems to my son, and he e-mailed back saying, “Well, you could call the book heart break.” Yes, love can hurt, huh?
The idea for “Dumped” came to me when I heard a young librarian say, “I was just dumped.” One of the great pluses of writing is that I notice details, what’s going on around me, and I listen with curiosity, listen hoping for an idea to fold into the project I’m working on. Writers can be nosey.
I enjoyed imagining a girl with her loveable cross-eyed cat, a boy who makes a fortune cookie to ask a girl out, a guy who decorates a girl’s car hoping she’ll go with him to homecoming, a girl whose dad saw her kissing at the bus stop.
Want to come over and get to know me better? Visit my Web word house at www.patmora.com
I’m waiting for your questions, and I have many questions about you. Do you write? Are you shy? What makes you happy? Sad? Have some big fears? A secret love?
What color is love, do you think?
Pat
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