How is writing Diaries and journal of famous people different from writing a regular story?
Well, with Diaries and journals of famous people, you sort of know in a way the whole story before you begin. Although you might choose to focus on more obscure parts of it. For example, with the Princess Diary of Elizabeth — I knew she was going to be queen. And with Marie Antoinette, I knew she was going to have her head chopped off — and I was glad I didn’t have to take the diary that far. And so, I’m not sure if it exactly affects my writing in a conscious way, but I think it does in some kind of very subtle way. Where you take a fictional character, like in my new book for Scholastic’s series My Name Is America, I’m doing a journal of a young boy named Augustus Pelletier, who went on the Lewis and Clark expedition — he’s just made up. Therefore, he’s not famous until there’s this wonderful kind of thing that happens, where I can just imagine him grown up. Even though in the diaries he’s just 14, I can just imagine him grown up, and history doesn’t stop me, even though I don’t writ
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