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The Writer's Dream by Cynthia Leitich Smith

The Writer's Dream by Cynthia Leitich Smith

"THE WRITER’S DREAM” was the last poem in a collection I wrote during sixth grade.

I spent countless hours in my room, on my canopy bed, pecking away at typewriter keys. I bound the pages with white satin ribbon. I made the front and back covers out of cardboard and heart-dotted red calico.