Don Sawyer On The 5 Things You Need To Be A Successful Author or Writer

…I found this statement years ago and wrote it down. To me it sums up the technical necessity of reading to be a good writer: “Unless you read, you won’t have any sense of what works and what to avoid; what can be powerful and what’s already been done to death; what expectations readers will demand you meet and what surprises will knock their socks off…

Some writers and authors have a knack for using language that can really move people. Some writers and authors have been able to influence millions with their words alone. What does it take to become an effective and successful author or writer? In this interview series, called “5 Things You Need To Be A Successful Author or Writer” we are talking to successful authors and writers who can share lessons from their experiences.

As a part of this series, I had the pleasure of interviewing Don Sawyer. An educator and writer, Don has worked with youth and adults from many cultural backgrounds and in a variety of locales, including teaching in a small Newfoundland outport, training community workers in West Africa…