Five Pages a Day: A Writer's Journey

The author of her autobiographical Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio, now shares the story of her writing career, which began at the age of ten when she wrote and sold her own newspaper, which featured tales of local dogs—mostly her own dog, B.J. The newspaper folded after four issues, but Kehret learned a valuable lesson: if she wants people to read what she writes, she must write something interesting.