身為作家的班傑明富蘭克林 Benjamin Franklin, the Writer

班傑明富蘭克林相當喜愛閱讀，在他年輕時，總是想盡辦法跟所有人借書來看，閱讀的主題也相當廣泛；他也喜愛寫作，但並不知道寫作的技巧。他只受過兩年教育，所以必須以自學的方式來學習，他開始找出喜愛的文章、然後重寫，有時候是憑著記憶來重寫；另外他也將一些詩作重寫為故事體例的文章，或是從某個故事中摘錄重點，將摘錄下的重點混雜後、嘗試重新組合成正確順序的故事。

他的努力獲得了回報，在他十六歲時，向他哥哥的報社新英格蘭新聞報投稿了14篇作品，也被遴選刊登；但事情並沒有這麼簡單。您曾經聽過「賽倫斯杜古德」（Silence Dogood – 文義為 「沈默做好事」 ）這個名字嗎？

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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