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I wrote my first book, Yassmin’s Story, after a four year mechanical engineering degree and no formal writing training. It was a good story n fairly readable, but it was no literary masterpiece. I didn’t think of myself as much of a writer, really... 1/
I could tell stories, but be a writer? Cmon mate. Everyone in my family is an engineer (except mum who studied architecture 
). We are ze technical type. We aren’t writers.
Except... I continued writing. N Alhamdulilah the team at @PenguinTeenAus gave me a chance. 2/
). We are ze technical type. We aren’t writers. Except... I continued writing. N Alhamdulilah the team at @PenguinTeenAus gave me a chance. 2/
And now I’m at a point where I’m writing more than I’m doing anything else - fiction, non fiction, scripts and more, and tho I’m still learning and growing, I’m... getting there. I’m starting to feel quite proud of what I write, and that’s pretty huge, Alhamdulilah 3/
All that to say - sometimes, we don’t conceive of ourselves in a particular way. We have those ye old fixed ideas of who we are and what we are capable of. I certainly did. But, we can learn, grow, change, evolve. And that’s so exciting.
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So, if this old race car designing drilling engineer can plot twist into a teen fiction writer, you can do anything too! 
