RAR #234: Encouraging Creativity: Insights and Inspiration from Author Millie Florence

Read-Aloud Revival ®

Sarah Mackenzie

Books, Homeschool, How To, Read-aloud, Kids & Family, Teaching From Rest, Reading, Education, Parenting

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

I want to introduce you to one of my new favorite authors.

She's younger than most published authors. In fact, she says she decided to publish her first book at nine years old. When she was 10, she attended her first writing conference. When she was 13, she self published her first book. She was homeschooled. You probably could have already guessed that. And she has been on a roll ever since.

Now she's 20 and she's making books I know your families are going to love.

Millie Florence shares her journey from whispering stories to herself under the covers to published author, plus her advice for aspiring young writers and their parents.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

How Millie’s homeschool experience informed her writing, and vice versa
Why it was so important that Millie’s parents took her professional writing aspirations seriously
Why Millie encourages young writers to choose quantity over quality in their projects

Learn more about Sarah Mackenzie:

Find the rest of the show notes at: readaloudrevival.com/advice-for-young-writers

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, hey, Sarah McKenzie here. I'm your host here at the Redaloud Revival Podcast.
0:11.3	The show that helps your kids fall in love with books and helps you fall in love with homeschooling.
0:17.0	Today on the show, I want to introduce you to one of my new favorite authors.
0:22.4	She's younger than most published authors. In fact, she says she decided to publish her first book at nine years old.
0:29.6	When she was 10, she attended her first writing conference. When she was 13, she self-published her first book.
0:36.6	She was homeschooled. You probably could have already guessed that.
0:39.6	And she has been on a roll ever since. Now she's 20 and she's making books. I know your families are going to love.
0:46.6	I'm telling you, she is Redaloud Revival people. And we have some fun, fun things to tell you in this episode.
0:52.6	Melly Florence, welcome to the Redaloud Revival.
0:56.6	Hello, Sarah. And hello, everyone. I am so excited to be here. Oh my goodness.
1:01.6	I've grown up listening to this podcast. So it's a very surreal feeling to be here.
1:08.6	It's so fun. I've always dreamed about like maybe one day we'll like get to meet authors who grew up listening to the podcast or grew up reading books on our book list and things.
1:19.6	It's so fun. We should tell everybody actually about how we met.
1:23.6	Yes. Oh my goodness. Because it is a, it's a very fun story.
1:27.6	It is. We're at that. Was it, it was Missouri, right? It was in Missouri at the home school conference. You tell it actually.
1:33.6	All right. I'll be interested to hear your perspective as well. But yes.
1:36.6	So I, and I've been going to great home school conventions and selling books for like three years at this point.
1:44.6	So this was my third year at the convention. And of course, Sarah had been here all the years.
1:49.6	I'd been there in the past as well. But we never met.
1:52.6	I think there was also a part of me that was like a little bit nervous because to like go and seek you out because I'm like, it's so convincing.
1:59.6	It's not intimidating. I promise. I'll just give you a hug.
2:03.6	Yeah.
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