身为作家的班杰明富兰克林 Benjamin Franklin, the Writer

班杰明富兰克林相当喜爱阅读，在他年轻时，总是想尽办法跟所有人借书来看，阅读的主题也相当广泛；他也喜爱写作，但并不知道写作的技巧。他只受过两年教育，所以必须以自学的方式来学习，他开始找出喜爱的文章、然后重写，有时候是凭着记忆来重写；另外他也将一些诗作重写为故事体例的文章，或是从某个故事中摘录重点，将摘录下的重点混杂后、尝试重新组合成正确顺序的故事。

他的努力获得了回报，在他十六岁时，向他哥哥的报社新英格兰新闻报投稿了14篇作品，也被遴选刊登；但事情并没有这么简单。您曾经听过「赛伦斯杜古德」（Silence Dogood ﹣ 文义为 “沉默做好事” ）这个名字吗？

Benjamin Franklin loved to read. When he was young, he borrowed books from anyone who would lend them. He read about all kinds of subjects. Franklin also wanted to write, but he didn't know how. He only had two years of school, so he taught himself. He found stories that he liked and rewrote them. Some he rewrote from memory. Others he turned into poetry and then rewrote back into stories. Sometimes he took notes on a story, then mixed up his notes and tried to put them back in the correct order.

His hard work paid off. When he was 16 years old, he submitted 14 letters to his brother's newspaper, the New England Courant, and his brother published them. But the story isn't quite that simple. Have you ever heard of "Silence Dogood"?

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