Nancy Lorenz
I got the idea partly from my own experiences, my mother's teaching, and my love of the arts. I love ballet. I love tap and jazz, Broadway, regional theater, and opera as well. I had to write about one of them, and hope to write eventually about them all.
I had many obstacles to getting training in ballet, and I used this as a skeletal frame for Kendra's experiences in the book.
As for Kendra's medical condition....that came from my mother's suggestion to use Multiple Sclerosis for a school report I had to do in the fourth grade for Health class. When I wrote the book, I knew that Kendra needed more than a cross-country move as an obstacle, she needed a medical one as well, and MS was a disease that no one had ever written about in fiction. I did research on the internet, and couldn't find any fictional character who suffered from this condition, so I wanted to bring MS to the forefront and wrote about it.
I had many obstacles to getting training in ballet, and I used this as a skeletal frame for Kendra's experiences in the book.
As for Kendra's medical condition....that came from my mother's suggestion to use Multiple Sclerosis for a school report I had to do in the fourth grade for Health class. When I wrote the book, I knew that Kendra needed more than a cross-country move as an obstacle, she needed a medical one as well, and MS was a disease that no one had ever written about in fiction. I did research on the internet, and couldn't find any fictional character who suffered from this condition, so I wanted to bring MS to the forefront and wrote about it.
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